Managing spacing permissions

The Editing category lets you specify the degree of editing that users can perform to the site’s pages, and how Contribute processes the creation of new paragraphs and other typographic elements.

In the Permissions dialog box, select Editing from the category list on the left.

The Editing category provides options that let you specify what page editing attributes Contribute will apply. When setting these permissions, carefully consider who the content contributors are and what page-editing capabilities they require.

The Non-template pages section of the Editing category in the Permission Group dialog box lets you specify what kinds of changes users can make to pages.

Note: These options apply only to pages that are not based on Macromedia Dreamweaver templates. A Dreamweaver template is a page created in Dreamweaver that has editable and non-editable regions; such templates provide their own restrictions, and are not controlled by the following editing preferences.

• Allow unrestricted editing lets users modify any page elements that Contribute supports. This includes editing text, editing tables, and inserting images.
• Protect scripts and forms prevents users from deleting script tags, server-side includes, code tags (such as Macromedia ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, and PHP tags), form tags, and form elements. This option is activated by default. Carefully consider if the users editing your web site’s content are experienced enough to modify code embedded in web pages. In general, tasks involving the modification of code and code tags are best left to web developers using Dreamweaver.
• Only allow text editing and formatting specifies that users can only edit text, modify styles, and apply bullets or numbered lists. Users are not able to add or edit tables, images, links, or delete server directives or plug-in content. Those tags will not be editable.

Paragraph spacing options

The Paragraph spacing section of the Editing category in the Permission Group dialog box lets you specify how Contribute applies HTML paragraph tags, which determine whether blank lines appear between paragraphs as a user types.

• One line, as in standard word processors applies inline CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) styles to each new <p> tag. The CSS styles defined for a web site usually cause paragraphs to be rendered closer together. This style is often more familiar to users who have worked with desktop publishing applications, which provide greater typographic control. Users can include more space between paragraphs by pressing Enter twice to insert a standard HTML <p> tag.
• (Recommended) Two lines, as in web page editors inserts standard HTML paragraphs using p tags. When a user presses the Enter key, Contribute inserts the HTML <p> tag; browsers display a blank line between paragraphs that use the <p> tag. Contributors can still insert a single-space line break by holding Shift and Enter at the same time, which produces the <br> tag.

Other editing options

Recommendation: turn on ALL these options.

• Allow Multiple Consecutive Spaces (uses  ) lets the user insert multiple consecutive spaces between words. When this option is selected and a user inserts multiple spaces, Contribute inserts multiple   entities (   ...), which causes browsers to display all of the spaces instead of only one space.
• Enforce Accessibility Options (such as ALT text for images) specifies that Contribute always prompts users for accessibility information to make the HTML generated by Contribute more accessible to people with disabilities. For example, when inserting an image, Contribute prompts the user to enter alternative text to be displayed in the event a web page cannot display images, or the viewer of the page has visual disabilities.
• Use <strong> and <em> in place of <b> and <i> specifies that when users format text as bold or italic, Contribute uses the <strong> and <em> tags instead of using the <b> and <i> tags. The <b> and <i> tags should be avoided because they are not accessible-friendly and the HTML tags are being phased out.