PLEASE HELP! - how do add html to product description?

all i wanna do is use html inthe product description field. does anyone know how to do this?

thanks in advance

simon

Open Admin> Catalog> Categories/Products >

If you haven't created a category for your product, then click on New Category and fill in the info for the category and click SAVE. Then create your product as described below.

If you already have the category set up, click on the yellow folder icon next to the category name (from admin> Catalog> Categories/Products >)

Next, click the the edit product button (green circle with E inside) for the appropriate product, or if creating product description for first time, then click on the New Product button.

To describe your product using HTML scroll down to the Product Description box. By default you will be in a WYSIWYG mode. To change to text mode where you can enter raw html code simply toggle the <> button at the top of the product description editing box. You can also enlarge this editing box into a separate and larger window by clicking on the icon just to the right of the <> icon (it looks like two overlapping windows with an arrow pointing at 45 degrees or the NNE position.)

Save your work by clicking the Preview button and then on the next screen click the* Update* button.

For future reference you find most of the basic setup information for ZenCart here https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php and in the documentation files that came with your ZenCart download.

thanks for quick reply.

i dont have the <> toggle anywher eon the product description page. im i using an od version maybe? i installed it via crystaltech.com/ctzencart.aspx

which is my hosting company.

werid?

I have no experience with CrystalTech product. You might need to ask them how to edit in raw html mode. In ZenCart 1.3.7. the toggle button is in the second line of the toolbar and fourth icon from the right.

However, you might try to create your page in another html editor, display your finished work if that editor has that feature, or simply load it into a browser, then cut and paste the result back into the wysiwyg mode of the ZenCart/CrystalTech editor and save as described. It's not a very elegant way to go, but should get the job done. Just watch out for any misalignments that might occur in the layout and test any links you may have put there.

what44:

im i using an od version maybe? i installed it via crystaltech.com/ctzencart.aspx

which is my hosting company.

Have you contacted them to ask for support for the product they've provided to you?
They say they offer support 24/7/365: crystaltech.com/support.aspx

This is the **Zen Cart **support forum, not CTzencart.

This is almost like a duplicate post, and I apologize, but I did not find this one until I posted my first one.

I have:
Zen Cart 1.3.8a
Database Patch Level: 1.3.8
v1.3.8 [2008-04-02 20:17:15] (Fresh Installation)
v1.3.8 [2008-04-02 20:17:15] (Fresh Installation)

I cannot find the wsywig or raw html functions you refer to. Am I crazy (probably so).

Thanks!!

:cool:

Can you get to the product creation/editing page?

If so,the biggest box in that page is for entering the descrpition. If you don't have HTMLArea set to default in Configuration > ?My Store?, you will be entering raw text. Any HTML tags you add to this will be used.

Can you describe what you are seeing in the edit page and in your store listing & info pages?

"Can you get to the product creation/editing page?"

Yes, I have set several products, and am using the text area.

But, I did miss the HTML setting. Reset it to HTML editor, still don't get the HTML edit area in products.

Strange... Let's drop this one for now, I have so many other things to get the site running right now, I don't want to bother you guys with a little nagging problem like this.

Thank any way, I will re-post later if that's alright.

:cool:

If you know how to use HTML tags, you can enter them without an HTML editor (and get cleaner code to boot:).

Have you considered using something like FCK Editor. Might be easier

I was stuck with this...

Have you selected the HTMLarea dropdown option on the categories and products admin pages? --- the pages you get to when you do catalog -> categories/products, and then from there when you click on a product category (or product) or use the green edit icon?

Fixed it for me, as well as setting the configuration -> layout option...

And sorry about the explanation.

For those who are reading this thread and wondering where the follow up is. I got it. I had the same problem understanding it...

If you go to Configuration -> My Store, and change the HTML Editor to HTMLAREA, it will allow you to use HTML in your product descriptions.

There were no <> or anything different on the actual product edit pages, it just allowed me to write in HTML and have it understood.

Hope this helps other people. It helped me. :clap:

Note: You don't need to have HTMLArea or any other editor running to enter HTML in the description. You can enter the HTML tags around your text and they will work perfectly in the store view. They will just look like text tags (no special appearance) in the description edit window.

Hi. I have just spent 3 months implementing a zen cart shop which I had thought would only take arounbd 10 days. Every single step of the way has been counter-intuitive, problematic and awkward. Now, with the end in sight, I've just got off the phone from the client who told me that when he puts info into the 'product description' area it ends up unformatted. So, for example, when he puts a sentence in then hits enter twice to go down 2 lines and make another sentence and then hits enter twice agin to go down another 2 lines and put another sentence in, on the shop proper this formatting does not appear and every line runs into the other. I've just tried to change this using the HTMLarea/plain text drop down menus on each category page and it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem is here and how it can be fixed? The explanations given so far on this thread don't help.

What is it about zen cart that every single thing must be fraught with difficulty and must defy common sense?

Im using 1.3.8a and I have changed my plain text to htmlarea in my store but i still dont get the options to edit product descriptions, how else can I do it. Thanks

You can always add html tags directly in the plaintext area. What options are you expecting and not seeing?

I can add html tags in the description to get the lists and paragraphs to appear correctly but it is extremely time consuming..

Is there a html editor that does this (built into Zen Carts)? Something like the one in wordpress but a lot less complicated.

There is the built-in HTMLAREA option, as well as the fckeditor addon which some find preferable.

you are a life saver. thank you

Does this only allow text formatting in HTML? I want to insert a javascript flash player into the description and it's not working.

edit: whoops I didn't realise how old this thread was.