Formatting 'Blog Description' content

[julianhopkins]

Hello, I'd like to format the text in the 'Blog description' field, and have tried doing this:

<em>anthropo</em>, blogs & <em>–logia</em>: humans, blogs and the study of…

but the html tags also appear on the blog header.

I'm using the Andreas09 template with Serendipity 1.3.1

How can I put some of the words in the 'Blog description' in italics?

thanks,
Julian

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yes, the blogdescription is not meant to hold HTML code. If you want to place custom HTML there, please edit the index.tpl template file of your selected template and place the text there, this is actually the only way to deal with this.

Best regards,
Garvin

[julianhopkins]

Thanks That solved it! Much appreciate the rapid response. I have been using this forum for long time now, but it's the first time I had to ask a question.

[julianhopkins]

Hi it's me again, actually I'd like to return to this question - it seems that I did something wrong (I'm no expert at these matters)

It looks fine when I am in the main blog area (i.e. the one you see when you go to http://www.julianhopkins.net). It looks like this

anthroblogia
anthropo, blogs & –logia: humans, blogs and the study of…

but when you view a blog post with a permalink,

Why I don't like Vista [--> this is the title of the post]
anthroblogiaanthropo, blogs & –logia: humans, blogs and the study of… [--> 'anthroblogia' and 'anthropo' are jammed together which is not nice.]

This is how I inserted the html-formatted sub-header, I assume I did something wrong there.

<div id="serendipity_banner">
<h1><a href="{$serendipityBaseURL}">{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle|truncate:60:" ...":false}</a></h1>
<h2>{$head_subtitle|@default:$blogDescription}<em>anthropo, blogs & –logia</em>: humans, blogs and the study of... </h2>
</div>

thanks for your help

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Try this instead (assuming that your blogDescription is empty!)

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<div id="serendipity_banner">
<h1><a href="{$serendipityBaseURL}">{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle|truncate:60:" ...":false}</a></h1>
<h2>{if $head_subtitle != ''}{$head_subtitle}<br />{/if}<em>anthropo, blogs & –logia</em>: humans, blogs and the study of... </h2>
</div>

HTH,
Garvin

[julianhopkins]

Thanks That works! I can see you put in a logic question thing, but I wouldn't know how to do that...

Thanks again for the rapid response, it's really appreciated