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**leehack** · 18-Nov-2008, 04:11 PM

If the product description variable in your product layout is surrounded by say:

..product description variable..

and you add a class to the stylesheet like so:

.andyH {
blah blah
}

then all product descriptions should take those styles you set. BUT it does depend on what styling you actually want to do, as you wanted us to guess that part, so i've guessed at the answer.

You put plain text in the database and actinic turns it into html for you, unless you've added your own formatting in certain places and tell actinic to do that part as html. Can you clarify?

**Chunkford** · 18-Nov-2008, 04:25 PM

Links to what you have done so far would be good!

From what i have read you are doing excatly what CSS is designed for.
Do a google search on CSS and you will find tons of information on the subject.

**Andy H** · 18-Nov-2008, 05:39 PM

Below is the URL for one of my items, and after that is the HTML for that item from my database. As far as styling is concerned I would just like to define the different heading font and sizes (by heading I mean the John Denver and Greatest Hits bits), and the size and font used by the main text and song titles. I'm sure this must be more efficient than what I'm doing at present.

http://www.hamcor.co.uk/acatalog/Joh...usic_Book.html

!!<
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center">
E-Z PLAY TODAY
JOHN DENVER
GREATEST HITS
Keyboard Sheet Music Book
<img src="http://www.hamcor.co.uk/images/Official-Merchandise.gif" alt="" border="0" />
</div>
Twenty-three of the pop superstar's greatest including 'Annie's Song', 'Back Home Again', 'Leaving On A Jet Plane', 'My Sweet Lady' and 'Rocky Mountain High'
<ul>
<li>A Baby Just Like You 
<li>Annie's Song 
<li>Autograph 
<li>Back Home Again 
<li>Calypso 
<li>Fly Away 
<li>Follow Me 
<li>For Baby (For Bobbie) 
<li>Friends With You 
<li>I Want To Live 
<li>I'm Sorry 
<li>Leaving On A Jet Plane 
<li>Like A Sad Song 
<li>Looking For Space 
<li>My Sweet Lady 
<li>Perhaps Love 
<li>Poems, Prayers And Promises 
<li>Rhymes And Reasons 
<li>Rocky Mountain High 
<li>Some Days Are Diamonds 
<li>Sunshine On My Shoulders 
<li>Take Me Home, Country Roads 
<li>Thank God I'm A Country Boy 
</ul>

</body>

</html>
>!!

**Andy H** · 18-Nov-2008, 05:40 PM

Eeek!

The URL should be

http://www.hamcor.co.uk/acatalog/Joh...usic_Book.html

**Chunkford** · 18-Nov-2008, 08:40 PM

I see what you are doing now.
It’s not what you want to be doing.

For a start, there is no reason for the <head> and <body> tags.
The information you are putting into actinic inserts it within the body of the main page.

If it was me, I would create a copy of the product layout you are using, and manipulate the code for that layout so not to ruin the existing layout. Oh and of course backup!

You can make the new product layout create certain things automatically using the product variables saving time re-entering information, and encase the layouts used for product descriptions and the song titles in a div tag and use CSS to style the information you want within that div tag. All you need to do then is to put the description and song titles directly into actinic with no html formatting.

**Andy H** · 19-Nov-2008, 09:26 AM

Thank you very much for your comments. At least know I know it is possible and will study that. As a small business with Christmas almost upon us, I didn't want to waste time walking down the wrong road.

Andy

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