We tried everything, and couldn't get it to work. We then switched to FeedBurner's javascript for HTML, and it worked fine...
Has anyone else reported issues? What were the resolutions?
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I'm sad...Feed Digest doesn't play well with my CSS
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Posted 16 years ago #
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What doesn't play well? You have full control over the output, so if something collides, just change the code we're outputting :) You could even just entirely erase our CSS and then it'll look just like the rest of your page.
Posted 16 years ago # -
We absolutley couldn't get it to work.
Don't know if it's because the CMS I'm using uses smarty templates or not, but the Feed Digest code would cause problems with the page formatting.
FeedBurner didn't.
Posted 16 years ago # -
If you use our JavaScript, and totally use the simplest HTML possible out from us, then there's no difference in technique. But if FeedBurner works, certainly use that.
Posted 16 years ago # -
My preference would be to use FD's output as I was under the assumption I could customize it.
We've still been trying to make it work, and I posted about the 'smarty templates' in the hopes for some construcive reponse from Feed Digest Support.
If anyone else reading this has any ideas please chime in.
thanks
Posted 16 years ago # -
You definitely can adjust EVERY aspect of what we output. Edit your digest, scroll down to where you select the template, then click the link to manually adjust your digest's code. As I said earlier: "You could even just entirely erase our CSS and then it'll look just like the rest of your page." .. so once you've deleted any CSS in our default templates, it can't possibly clash on yours anymore (as there is none). I don't have any experience with Smarty templates, but it shouldn't clash.
If you're just putting JavaScript in, the code comes entirely from us or from FeedBurner. You can totally control what we output 100% so, again, there shouldn't be a clash if you manually edit the code to be precisely to your site's specifications.
Posted 16 years ago # -
That is, edit your digest, and the link says "» Click here to edit HTML templates manually (for advanced users)". Erase the header and footer templates entirely, and then just put this in the "Per Item Template":
%DAY2%/%MONTH2% <b>%TITLE,42%</b>
This is only a very simple template, but once you've set that up, the text served from Feed Digest will use entirely the styles supplied by your own site, and you can work on and make it more advanced from there.
Posted 16 years ago # -
Ok, I'll try your fix, thanks!
I just went through all of the templates PLAIN and HTML and tested them in my site.
I made no chages to the html besides the DESCRIPTIONPLAIN tag.
The only template that does 'not' cause formatting problems is "striking'. Even when stripping header and footer codes from the other templates, and all other formatting information - the other templates still caused formatting errors.
I'll still try your fix, but for now, I'll deal with "Striking" since it's the only one that works for me. It's unclear to me why this template would be different from the others.
I don't know if it makes a difference, but I noticed that STRIKING has a </table> tag...
Posted 16 years ago # -
Can you define "formatting errors"? One of the problems is you're saying things are wrong, but I don't know what those things are.
Posted 16 years ago # -
Generally speaking when any template other than STRIKING is set to DESCRIPTION, and I add it to my index page, all of the formatting of the page is completely destroyed - even when all of the tags and formatting information is removed from the FeedDigest windows.
By destroyed, I mean, I'm not seeing any error messages...simply that the formatting is all over the page in the wrong places.
Posted 16 years ago # -
That doesn't make much sense though, especially on a simple template that merely adds text with only the most basic of HTML tags. I'd need to see an example to tell you what's happening. It's not something we've ever seen before or had reported.
Posted 16 years ago # -
I'll email screen shots to you.
Posted 16 years ago # -
Oh.. I've just realized something from what you said. Do not use DESCRIPTION, change to DESCRIPTIONPLAIN. DESCRIPTION includes the FULL HTML of items into your page, which is likely to mess it up. Use DESCRIPTIONPLAIN and all evil HTML is stripped.
Posted 16 years ago # -
I need html.
It's ok. Like I said, the same feed works fine with STRIKING (and DESCRIPTION), even though it doesn't work with the other templates.
I emailed screenshots
Posted 16 years ago # -
Perhaps the problem, then, relates to the clipping. Is it something like %DESCRIPTION,100%, etc? If so, perhaps one of your items is being trimmed mid-HTML tag and the broken tag is screwing up your page. If so, you'd need to do just %DESCRIPTION% with no trimming. Our trimming is absolute and does not respect HTML. It's per character, so 100 is literally "100 characters".
Posted 16 years ago # -
No, these particular entries weren't being clipped mid-html. I thought that might be the problem, so I loaded entries with no html within the entry.
Posted 16 years ago # -
The only other thing I can think of is that there's something long and non-breakable, but which a TABLE is containing safely for you. I'd suggest perhaps tweaking the template that's working for you bit by bit to be more like you want, while checking at each step to see if it breaks. Then if it breaks, you'll know what the issue is (and can also post here to let me know :))
Posted 16 years ago # -
That could be it, since each entry has a long graphic above it.
I'll play around with the tables and let you know. But for now, Striking looks great! :)Thanks for all the help.
Posted 16 years ago # -
Closing this thread due to length, but in case of any new questions, just open a new one :)
Posted 16 years ago #
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