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Apply DisplayOptions for EPiServer.Forms Elements

Apply DisplayOption for EPiServer.Forms Elements Would you like to use this feature also for EPiServer.Forms? In this blog post I'm gonna show you how to do that. Background It's really great to see platform evolving and adding new features. But unfortunately - I must say that EPiServer.Forms are pretty close for modification (which is good) but at the same time - not so open for extensions, that's why we will need to modify some of the built-in templates to get this done. Getting Started First of all,…

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EPiServer Twitter Bootstrap Content Area Renderer Updates

Here comes small updates for the Content Area renderer in the latest version: Now EPiServer.Forms are supported Possibility to have your own Css classes DisplayOption is now available in block template as well (if needed) Some smaller bug fixes Naming Challenges As you might know - I'm still struggling with naming of this package. Originally it was planned to be as Twitter Bootstrap Content Area Renderer, but apparently over time package feature set deviated from original idea as now package gives so much more than just adding necessary Css…

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Specify Default DisplayOption in the Content Area

Time to time when working on various projects we come across requirement to control somehow which DisplayOption will be selected as default, once content is placed inside particular ContentArea. As most of our projects are running under Twitter Bootstrap system - this is ideal feature request for EPiServer Bootstrap Content Area plugin. As I'm always trying to be developer friendly - I would like to be able to define these default display option rules in the code. And finally version 3.3 got these features. Default DisplayOption for Block So…

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<head> driven by Content Area

For some powerful sites and editors sometimes it's wise to give them power to manipulate some stuff in <head> area. One of the simplest way to give editors this possibility is to create ContentArea where editors could create particular set of available blocks that would output themselves between <head> elements. By default EPiServer will generate wrapping element around content area (div tag name is actually controllable as well, more info here): @Html.PropertyFor(m => m.PageHeaderArea) Resulting in: <div> <!-- CA wrapper…

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Row support added to Bootstrap ContentArea

With helpful support from Huilaaja (@huilaaja) Bootstrap aware ContentArea renderer (or in other words - EPiBootstrapArea) got row markup support. Originally row support documentation for ContentArea you can find in author's blog post. With author's permission now row support is added to Bootstrap aware content area renderer package. Enable Row Support For backward compatibility and general idea of Bootstrap content area renderer - row support is disabled by default. You need to enable it explicitly. If you want to enable row markup support "globally" on every content area,…

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