tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post7299456879438555589..comments2024-02-08T07:32:20.315-06:00Comments on Steve Bates - Yellow Doggerel Democratic Views: Obama Determined To Make It Difficult For His Base To Vote For HimSteve Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-33792881322913811612012-05-17T11:31:58.670-05:002012-05-17T11:31:58.670-05:00ellroon, your blog has a white background. If you ...ellroon, your blog has a white background. If you copy-paste from an original (say a NYT article) which also has a white background, Blogger will silently insert a "background-color:white;" tag, but it has no effect, because your background is already white... no harm, no foul. My background is a very deliberately chosen pale yellow, #feaeae, to be precise. So if Blogger forces a background of white, and also forces larger line heights, the results can be really quite ugly. Most posts require of me quite a bit of manual labor at the HTML level to obtain a satisfactory appearance; I am literally fighting the Blogger post editor every step of the way... and all because of my pale yellow background. (It sounds like racism, doesn't it?)Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-86162120134826564942012-05-17T10:26:15.206-05:002012-05-17T10:26:15.206-05:00I have difficulty following your struggles, Steve,...I have difficulty following your struggles, Steve, because I've got the most simplistic form ever. But when in doubt, I copy to clipboard and paste from there. It seems to rinse everything....ellroonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335409429673647381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-44977923470668540092012-05-16T23:00:42.452-05:002012-05-16T23:00:42.452-05:00And one last thought on background colors: yes ind...And one last thought on background colors: yes indeed, Blogger will create separate DIVs each with its own STYLE including a BACKGROUND-COLOR (usually white). At a minimum, I have to go through and manually remove those. If "Yellow" were not part of my blog name, I'd simply give up on the BODY background color, but by now I'm so stubborn I'll fight it to the death.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-26072370679501748562012-05-16T22:48:43.305-05:002012-05-16T22:48:43.305-05:00I should say that pasting into gedit usually remov...I should say that pasting into gedit <i>usually</i> removes <i>most</i> formatting. Some things come through, depending on the source of the quoted material. There is no one way that works on every text to be quoted; it's always cut-and-try.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-44351247301337637082012-05-16T22:44:15.301-05:002012-05-16T22:44:15.301-05:00Bryan, I've found that my best bet is to copy-...Bryan, I've found that my best bet is to copy-paste from whatever source into an instance of gedit (think: notepad). This effectively removes all formatting. Then I have to use as many BR tags as needed to simulate paragraphs (two per graf) and then paste the whole thing into HTML mode on the blog. Often I forget a step, or neglect to remove the DIV's and such from the original, or whatever. It is aggravating, because there is simply no reason for Blogger to make it difficult to blockquote a passage. It's inexcusable... and I do not excuse it. It may drive me back to WordPress; I haven't decided yet.<br /><br />Obama is hopeless; I have no notion of reforming him. But for the sake of women's rights and LGBTQ rights (and little else), I shall hold my nose and vote for him. Then I shall go home and sterilize my hands...Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-23675962238020553022012-05-16T22:26:25.670-05:002012-05-16T22:26:25.670-05:00OT: I can see why it is happening by looking at th...OT: I can see why it is happening by looking at the page source. Every single paragraph is treated as a separate DIV with colors defined. If you copy from a Blogger site that will probably be included and overwrite the defaults.<br /><br />WordPress will do something similar if you paste in 'Visual' mode, but ignores the formatting information in 'HTML' mode.<br /><br />Oh, yes, Zero is functionally a neo-con. That's why I won't vote for him.Bryanhttp://whynow.dumka.us/noreply@blogger.com