I can not edit text

editing
#1

Sitecake is loaded and toolbar is here, but when I click text I can’t edit?

#2

Usually this is a CSS problem.

Easiest way to test this is to delete the line(s) that load CSS in the head of your HTML page. You will loose layout and styling but should be able to edit text. If this is the case then you should fix css.

Today website templates often have parallax animations when scrolling, layers that partly cover images, hidden modal boxes etc. All of these elements can take control of your mouse clicks and render Sitecake text boxes under them non functional.

I’ve seen templates with CSS like this:

#content > * { position: relative; z-index: 2; }

rules like this affect Sitecake textboxes since they are part of a regular element flow.

So check your CSS first.

#3

I think I’m facing the same problem here. Could you please elaborate how we can fix on the css?

I can edit the initially-not-editable text in the HTML EDITOR, but when I open in my php, there’s no changes. How do we make sure that when we edit in the HTML Editor, it will also happen in the php?

I’m sorry if I’m making you repeat the same thing, but I’ve been reading your comment over and over again trying to understand and imagine where to go & click. I would really appreciate if you could explain a little bit more on this.

Thank you.

#4

First of all Sitecake in version 2.2.10 does not support php.

Please disregard install instructions for v1:

http://sitecake.com/docs/install.html

In stead follow install instructions for v2:

https://github.com/sitecake/sitecake/wiki/Getting-Started

If you make manual changes to HTML, upload on the server and do not see those changes in Sitecake edit mode, it means that you need to delete /sitecake-temp folder which holds draft version from previous edit. Once deleted Sitecake will recreate draft from the HTML.

If you have CSS that is positioning layers over website content (body text, images, …) there is great chance that Sitecake text editing will not work, because it has same z-index as original text.

We are in making of new, more robust version of editor that will be able to edit php pages, read HTML first draft second and have editing on the top of all other layers, so all three issues should be solved.