[Typo3] RTE not able to tag for CSS???

[JoH]

> This really could not be true! CSS is the standard for formating HTML
> pages. Sure typo3 can reference stylesheets but this is of little use
> if the content is not marked up accordingly. I think that only very
> few sites can manage with P, H1, H2 and the other standart tags and
> specific extensions are necessary. The CSS standard describes the
> needed elements.
> I have to say that MS with its frontpage supports CSS with not much
> left  to desire. I my opinion a enterprize class content management system
> should offer the same support for CSS. Otherwise it seems pretty
> outdated to me.

1. You are right: CSS _is_ the standard for formatting HTML (as far as you
believe in W3C standards) and believe me, the TYPO3 developers are very well
aware of this fact.

2. If you need more than the standard tags it might be that you didn't
understand CSS completely. Especially the C (Cascading) might be the
something that's missing.
In most cases we used standard tags only for our clients sites, wrapped with
different div-tags for each content element. This way you can format a P
inside a News-Container in another style than a P inside a Textpic-Element.
Very easy to handle, without any need for fancy "<DIV
class="Lookwhatever">|</DIV> inside a textblock. And this is what the RTE
has to offer: a simple Textblock, that might contain some strong or em tags,
or a simple list. Even the tables and images you can insert via the default
RTE are simply waste, since there are content elements for those objects.
But even if you want to work with those DIVs, it can still be easily
achieved by using techniques that are described here:
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_core_api/

3. TYPO3 has never been and never claimed to be a WYSIWYG-Editor. It's a
Content Management Framework, which is something completely different. The
main goal is to handle content in a comfortable way and as far as possible
completely separated from styles, formatting and other layout stuff. The
more tags you are using inside the content, the more you drift away from
this goal and the harder it gets to make the same content available for
different media.

BTW: Not to offend you, but if you like Frontpage that much, go, use it and
be happy with it. Nobody forces you to work with TYPO3 if it's not fitting
your special needs.

Just my 14 lines

Joey