Suggestions for the CSS editor of vB4.0

[Milado]

Title explains it.

I would like to be able to add infinite custom classes and IDs (#).

The ability to add CSS classes in the products' files.

The ability to add subclasses:
like:

a.link img.img
{
bla bla bla
}

Regards

[briansol]

I would like to see the whole admin area revamped to 2 modes

Perhaps,
"easy mode" and "advanced mode"

easy mode shows the wisywig thing...

advanced is a flat file/textarea, of which you can add things too it (that will show in easy mode in the 'extras' box)

As someone well-versed in css, i find the 'noob' editor completely useless and harder to work with, but do understand why it was chosen this way for the non technical people.

[Milado]

In a CSS editor, I imagine that we can choose for a given class, a property (from a drop-down menu) and type its value or choose a value from a drop-down menu too.

[cheat-master30]

My ideas for the Style Manager in general are extremely cool, extremely powerful and probably both advanced user and newbie friendly.

First, there would be a preview of the style on the page with the edit settings, and what's typed in or selected will change the preview in the same way, hence allowing you to know what each choice has done to the forum style without saving it and reloading the main page. This would go purely off CSS layout design here.

You'd also have a block editor where you can move around blocks of the forum pages into the positions and have them floated or absolute positioned by CSS correspondingly. For example, the logo, navigation, forum listings, footer etc would all be movable objects.

Templates would also have a preview for what you enter in the code, similar to how W3 Schools has it, except perhaps even instant changing (admin settable option to old style, instant or button press preview).

http://w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_basic

They would also have an if conditional editor which allows you to generate the logic for advanced modifications, such as a list with:

Condition 1:



Is Member
Is Guest
Is Certain Usergroup
Using Certain Style
Viewing Certain Page
Is on Own Profile or Post
Has certain (post or rep count totals)


And then maybe a condition 2 list for similar.

Things like CSS and templates would also have line numbers provided by them, and an option could be enabled to check things like HTML or CSS validity by the official generator, then options to go to the errors if any are detected. Of course, I'd assume vBulletin would have something like 'Control Panel Options' for what editor style and what features to use in the Admin CP.

Yeah, probably a few other ideas would be nice too.

[Wayne Luke]

I think this suggestion is related to:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=281411

The thread linked above illustrates the original suggestion here in a better way I think.