Dev Talk — Questions wanted for tomorrow!

[dan]

We’re recording a new Elements Dev Talk tomorrow, and we’d love your input!

Got questions, ideas, or topics you’d like us to dig into? Drop them below, we’ll pick a few to chat through in the episode.

Anything goes, feature requests, workflow tips, behind-the-scenes stuff, you name it

Cheers!

[MichaelDroste]

Like to see workflow tips… could almost make it a permanent segment….

[oldmaps (Richard Nicholson)]

Purchased Elements as soon as you made it available but not yet made the move as I could not rebuild my extremely large Classic built site website unless there was a replacement answer in Elements for the Photos stack. I need to be able to click on a small warehoused image of a map to open a window showing a very large warehoused image of the map which the viewer can move around and see in detail. Is this something a 3rd party developer could likely create and sell in the Marketplace in time?

[Al_Heron]

Hi Dan,

I’ve got a question, probably a bit mundane for your Dev Talk, but if so then perhaps you could answer it at some other time.

I have a Gallery set up to use some CMS files which display info about some products. I can format the Markdown in the editor, Bold, Italic and so forth just as I have here, but when I view the published info the Markdown formatting isn’t being applied, so a Bold word would have 2 leading and 2 following asterisks showing rather than a bolded word. Am I doing something wrong, is it a bug, or is it a limitation of the editor. I am using a text field, would a Typography field help instead? So in fact, that’s 4 questions! This is in the latest 1.4.6 version of Elements (the Author.names are showing correctly now thanks in 1.4.6)

[FounDAry (Ebda)]

Is there a slideshow creator with “fade-in/fade out” function for Elements in the pipeline - or is there one that you would recommend, please?

[ttang (Tommy)]

Can we have some sample projects for us to learn/practice custom components?

[dan]

Great questions! We’ll try to cover as many as we can

[Pegasus]

@MichaelDroste

Like to see workflow tips… could almost make it a permanent segment….

I’m also very interested in this — especially in how the individual CMS components are intended to be used.

For example, should a collection-item be placed inside a container/flex element, or should the collection-item come first, followed by the container/flex?

The same question applies to all other CMS items as well.

I’d like to set everything up correctly from the start, so I don’t have to restructure things later due to an incorrect setup.

[stevec (Steve Consilvio)]

First Elements website - small accordion glitch

A compatibility list for Elements sounds like a fantastic idea! Let’s break it down a bit: Modern Browsers Compatible with Elements: Google Chrome: Generally stays up to date with modern standards, so recent versions should work seamlessly with Elements. Mozilla Firefox: Like Chrome, recent versions will support the modern JavaScript of Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS used by Elements. Apple Safari: As discussed, Safari 12 is a no-go. Safari 14 and later should have the necessary sup…

1. 1. I could get one accordion to scroll to the top properly, but I couldn’t get two to scroll to the top. And I didn’t have a chance to work on the page.
      The AI Bot provided a script, but I don’t seem to know how to use it properly.

   I’ve watched the video on anchors multiple times, I seem to be going backwards.

   If you have time for this issue, it would be great.

   thxs

   ….looks like the script the ai posted is gone?

2. Here is my original question:

3. Is there a way to add a “move to top” button within an accordion (at the bottom) to move to the top of the accordion? (Not floating, as they tend to block text. Just a button that will scroll up to top of the accordion (not top of page)).

4. Is there a way to force the window to scroll to the top of the accordion when it opens? If I open a second accordion, it closes the first one, and places you in the middle of nowhere.