Italics in text?

[jxm28788]

Is it possible to put italics or bold in the text of products? (ie. just like the way you can do it using the [] codes in these messages)?

I've been trhough all the pdf manuals and the KB but not found anything...

[Darren]

You could try embedding HTML in the product description.

You can embedd by using !!<<text here>>!!

i.e. !!<<My product details here>>!!

[Darren]

Whoops, sorry, you wanted to may it italic.

to do this, try

!!<<I>My italic text here</I>>!!

If you wanted it bold, do

!!<<B>My bold text here</B>>!!

Hope this helps

[jxm28788]

ah, that's the bunny. thanks.

just what I was trying to do, but I didn't have enough brackets and no "!" - can you let me know where that is documented?

[Martin Smith]

If you wish to make all of the text bold then hard code a <b> tag in the template.

However if you wish to just make some words bold, I would suggest that you use the logical tags <strong> and <em> rather than <b> and <i>.

[pinbrook]

can you let me know where that is documented?

the Advanced User Gude downloadable from the actinic site

[paddydunn]

Italics in text

'Fraid I'm having difficulty mastering the basics of html even though I understand from previous threads that if I want to embolden some text then this !!<<B>My bold text here</B>>!! is the way to do it.
Problem is I can't get it to 'stick'. In other words I assume from what I've read that I go to the Site 1 folder, select sitehtml then the file I need to amend using the code above; then save it. That seems to change it momentarily but sadly the text then reverts back and the change is lost.
Clearly I seem to be misunderstanding what file needs to be amended but having tried several permutations for the last week or so nothing seems to work.
Apologies for an elementary question but I've tried everything and even found the advanced user guide inexplicit!
Paddy

[jont]

Hi Paddy,

the above solution is used for entering the text into say the product decsription or fragments directly from within Actinic so you can select where to embolded rather than changing the templates.

Eg: if you product description reads "New and improved design for 2005" and you want to embolden say 2005 you would enter the following into the product decription:

New and improved design for !!<<b>2005</b>>!!

The HTML code is <b>2005</b> you need the !!<...>!! surrounding the HTML to tell Actinic it is actually HTML style and not plain text

HTH

[jont]

Just rereading your thread - you appear to be altering the finished HTML pages in the site folder - these are used for previewing the site - any changes made there will not be uploaded to the server and will disappear the next time you hit preview inside Actinic.

You need to alter the Act_templates in the site1 folder to make permanent changes to the code or enter the code into say a fragment or product description using !!< >!! as outlined above

[paddydunn]

Many thanks for your swift reply Jont, appreciated. However I must be dimmer than I thought I was because having found all those Act_templates, how the heck do I find the text I was trying to give it some <b>?
In the last few minutes I've opened several Act_template files and none looks remotely like what I was after, yet I can clearly see what I need in the sitehtml files! Apologies again if I'm being exceedingly dim: new to all this.
Paddy

[jont]

What particular text are you trying to change?

You may be able to also change this under Actinic in Design | Text ... enter the text you are looking for and click search to find the text... you can then add in the <b> and </b> tags there .. generally no need to use the !!<.. >!! tags in that section

[paddydunn]

I'm just trying to learn the basics of html and in this case I wanted to embolden the words 'The original Colonel Bogey' in my news page:
(http://www.eastneycollection.com/acatalog/News.html) before I attempt more advanced things!
I tried Design/text and typed in these words as a search but nothing happened. So more explicitly it's back to my problem of not being able to make changes to some of the text in my site....I'm currently receiving SEO advice and this involves making some basic changes which sadly is currently beyond me at the moment. Can't imagine why as I don't believe it's a difficult problem just to embolden some poxy text! Again thanks for your willingness to help
Paddy

[dscontroller]

Paddy,

Where you have entered the text - The Original Colonel Bogey: just surround it as follows - !!<<strong>The original Colonel Bogey:</strong>>!!

Hope this helps.

David

[paddydunn]

David - very many thanks, at last! That works of course but I'm surprised because as far as I can see nowhere do the guides make it clear that you type this straight into the box at 'Fragment details - News/General/text', nor does this forum come to that. [It's an assumption which hadn't occurred to me for some reason. Pity the guides aren't written with greater clarity, e.g. with more specifics and working examples for dumbos like me!].

There also appears to be debate elsewhere in this forum about the relative merits of <strong> or <b> etc but no doubt that's something I can experiment with in due course. Meanwhile I can now get on with a number of overdue amendments: thank you very much.
Paddy

[NormanRouxel]

A good guide and tutorial on adding your own HTML to text is right there in the Actinic programs Help. Just look for "embedding HTML"