[TYPO3] tt_news first paragraph

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

Lee M. Childress wrote:
> Before I go hacking away at the actual tt_news code, I am sure there is a better way to do this:
>  
> When displaying a single view in tt_news I would like only the first paragraph of the news body to have a different class tag than the rest, i.e.:
>  
> <p class="bodytext_first">This is the first paragraph of the news story.</p>
> <p class="bodytext">This is the second and remaining paragraphs.</p>
>  
> Any decent way to do this without altering the code?

CSS3 (or CSS2 ?) :first-sibling for instance or doing something like that:

<div class="news">
   <p class="bodytext">This is the first...</p>
   <p class="bodytext">This is the second...</p>
</div>

and in CSS

.news p {
	# first
}

.news p+p {
	# second and next
}

At least this is the idea...

HTH

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Xavier Perseguers
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