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Drupal: Creating new regions

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:43:53 +0000

One of the most useful things a Drupal themer can learn is how to create custom regions. That’s probably a gross overstatement… but there you go. I find this useful:

1. Put this in your theme template.php file. (if you don’t have one, create one in your new theme folder… wrap it’s contents in a tag

function ThemeName_regions(){

    return array(

    'RegionName'=>t('RegionName'),

  );

}

2. in your page.tpl.php call the region where you want it:

or to keep your page.tpl.php a bit more flexible (and perhaps save yourself from creating additional .tpl.php files):

Remove unwanted img attributes with Jquery

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:29:21 +0000

(Not really a difficult issue – I’ve posted more for my own quick reference).

In Drupal, if you find that image attributes (align, vspace, hspace, etc) added by site editors/authors are messing up your lovely layout, add this bit of jquery:

$(document).ready(function () {

  // Remove image unwanted image attributes that might be added by editors

  $('img').removeAttr('align').removeAttr('vspace').removeAttr('hspace');

});

Just remember to give the editors a list of possible classes to which to achieve the same results with css. Make it even easier on them and whittle down the available classes to the editor’s profile via admin/settings/tinymce

Controlling TinyMCE editor width

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:42:37 +0000

One thing that really helps the display of the tinyMCE within your Drupal theme… i.e. not breaking it… is to put the following rule into your style.css:

.mceToolbarTop

  {

  white-space:normal;

  }