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Hi Bikram, I think what

Laurence — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:20:41 -0700

Hi Bikram,
I think what you're after is the 'Post Settings' page (Log in > Administer > Post settings
- URL admin/content/node-settings).

Here you can change the length of your trimmed posts to 'unlimited' which will then effectively disable teasers, although only for new or updated content.

Hey man sorry to bother, but

Bikram — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:22:36 -0700

Hey man sorry to bother, but ive been working on a school project for a week now and found no solutions. Were making a website on drupal and trying to put a story on the front page or any page for that matter and want the content displayed in full without any link to lead to it, so the entier story would be displayed in full in the body of the page without any links at all (leading to the body of after the body). Do you have any advice, we are total newbs using Drupal.

Thank You

All of my posts have break

Laurence — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:20:20 -0700

All of my posts have break tags already.

The reason the whole post is aggregated on Drupal Planet is because I publish whole posts in my RSS feed.

please add a break tag the

Guest — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:45:09 -0700

please add a break tag the whole article got on the Drupal Planet

Hi Kieran, thanks for the

Laurence — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:36:29 -0700

Hi Kieran,
thanks for the suggestion - I'll have a look at doing that.

It would be great to add

Kieran Lal — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:01:58 -0700

It would be great to add this as a case study here http://drupal.org/cases

Thanks for writing this up.

Kieran

Laurence--glad you included

Dan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:30:28 -0700

Laurence--glad you included the link to the initial post by Meyer--should have done that myself.

The big idea that I take away from Meyer's discussion of the reset rules is that beyond creating a baseline for all browsers, resetting the rules forces him to think about every element of the page and why he is styling it as he does. To put it another way, the reset encourages intentional design choices, and I think that's a good thing.

You noted in your post on stripping down the page template file to its skeleton (I think that's the one) that it's good to understand how the various elements work together up front and to solve design problems up front, rather than implementing code and then hoping you can figure out where the kinks and quirks are coming from. Another benefit of some sort of reset rules is that it helps with the problem solving.

Finally, Meyer himself notes that his rules are his--how he would create a baseline for his designs, and he encourages his readers to create their own--and to know why they are making the choices they make.

Hi Dan, thanks for the

Laurence — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:09:22 -0700

Hi Dan, thanks for the links.

I would definitely agree with you that Eric Meyer's views on the whole resetting CSS issue are something that people should take the time to read through and understand, and I would also agree that the universal selector option is not perfect (although to be fair I never said it was ;). However, I think it's important to say that Eric Meyer's reset solution isn't perfect either.

If anyone wants to get into this subject I would suggest they start with Eric's post on Meyerweb entitled Reset Reasoning, where he first explains why he feels the need to implement a specific set of reset rules.

Up until yesterday I

Dan — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:39:58 -0700

Up until yesterday I wouldn't have given much thought to your choice to zero out the padding and margins--but then I read a couple of posts on Eric Meyer's blog about why this is a bad thing to do. The short version is that using the universal selector as you have suggested does indeed reset the padding and margins for *everything*--including form elements. Meyer explains here (http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/15/) why that's a bad idea. In a related post, he also explains--and documents--those elements he does reset: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/. It's worth reading through the post and comments to see how he handles it as well as his rationale.