Setting up products in my store on my computer before launching the actual store.
My product description is a plain text box. My ebook shows it to be an html version with links, bold, etc.
How to I turn on the html side of the description?
Garrett
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18 Feb 2009, 04:39 PM #1
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18 Feb 2009, 05:24 PM #2
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Re: product discription html?
In your ZC Admin Panel, look under CONFIGURATION>>>MY STORE ... at the bottom you can select/activate your HTML editor.
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18 Feb 2009, 07:26 PM #3
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Re: product discription html?
Originally Posted by schoolboy
Ok I activated the HTML
Works fine when I view the actual product in the store but the when I view the category where it shows the product thumbnail and partial description, the text is in html as shown below.
<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;...
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Is there a way to turn off the html on the partial description when viewing the products in the categories?
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18 Feb 2009, 07:28 PM #4
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Re: product discription html?
Did you copy your description from a word document or an email? Originally Posted by Z888999777T
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18 Feb 2009, 07:29 PM #5
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Re: product discription html?
Default Zen Cart behavior is to strip all HTML from the description before displaying it in the product listing.
Do you have a purchased template installed in your store? Some of them bypass or override standard settings.
Yes, MsoNormal sounds like a Microsoft Office tag...
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18 Feb 2009, 07:44 PM #6
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Re: product discription html?
Yeah... I'll bet you did this...
You opened up MS Word and created your product descriptions in a word doc, then "saved as" html.
Then you copied (ctrl+c) and pasted (ctrl+v) into the product descriptions editor on ZC...
It's OK to use a PROPER external HTML editor (KEEP AWAY FROM MS RUBBISH), and then to copy the HTML CODE (everything between the <body> </body> tags...
... and then "toggle" to HTML VIEW (or Source View) in the ZC editor.
THEN you paste your HTML.
MS is guaranteed to mess everything up - so avoid it as you would the Black Plague!20 years a Zencart User
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18 Feb 2009, 10:06 PM #7
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Re: product discription html?
I do not have any templates installed - yet...
Yes, I did try to paste from MS word (cheating) due to my time constraints.
did try a "real" editor and all is well so far
greatly appreciate your help
Garrett
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18 Feb 2009, 10:13 PM #8
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Re: product discription html?
Glad to assist Garrett...
... and if I come across as a bit of an ogre sometimes, please excuse me. I used to be a teacher in a stuffy old private school! (Only way we could get the boys to learn anything was to drum it into them with jackhammers!)
(See my SIG, below!)
Good luck with your site!
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Re: product discription html?
Solution:
In ZC
1. Keep editor to plain text,
2. check your product desc,
3. Remove all un-wanted stuffs from there
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