Product Image Position

[JackA]

Thanks, Glenn. I didn't enter the product descriptions. Someone else did. How would I find the best procedure to edit this as you suggest? Am i actually looking for an html file or is this edited via the admin?

[gjh42]

Admin > Catalog > Categories/Products > navigate to your product and click the "e" button on the right.

If you have an HTML editor active in your admin, you won't be able to see the code in the description window. Try turning it off if that is the case.

[JackA]

I apologize, but are you suggesting I need to edit each of over 4000 products one at a time with this method? You make a statement below "and you would never need to enter the whole mass of code in descriptions again, which would also make it much easier to understand when looking at the raw text."

But, is this the only way to do this?? I hope I misunderstand. Would you clarify? I'm hoping there is a more global option.

Jack

[JackA]

My apologies again. I just learned that the products were uploaded originally with a script by another developer who just loaded a table format provided by the vendor. Gee, wish I had known that for both our sakes. However, I have learned much with your help. Thanks. I'll get back to him with the issue.
Jack

[gjh42]

I had no idea you had that many products. It's definitely not practical to edit those manually unless you have no other option. You could keep the description code as is if you are satisfied with the way it displays (color, spacing, etc.). If you ever want to modify it, you would be screwed, except for the possibility of using "!important" in stylesheet declarations to override embedded styling. Not clean coding, but better than nothing.

The ideal situation would be to have an automated script to re-enter the descriptions with bare-bones tables like my example. Then you have less bulk in the database and it will be easier to style. (One big advantage to CSS over embedded HTML styling is that you can change the appearance of a hundred pages with one line of code edits.)

[JackA]

Yes, we are going back to reload after mods using his script. Man! Wish I had know that to start with!

Can you tell me how/if I can turn on/off the Quantity in stock text and also the
"This product was added to our database on (date)" in the Admin?

Thanks. I've looked, tried stuff and no success without editing the php.

J

[gjh42]

Those are admin settings.

Catalog > Product Types > Product-General > edit layout.