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wtw Shadow Box (updated to shadowboxwtw2)			plugin
Rating 12 votes	Developer:	Ray Courtnall	Version:	0.5 (Updated 106 days ago)
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	Views:	22,649	License:	GPLv2.0
	Favoured:	18	Type:	Non-Commercial
			Date Added:	Feb 22, 2007

UPDATED to shadowboxwtw2: Now allows all 15 backend option to be used in the frontend mambot tag. There is also a button to insert the code for you in your wysiwyg editor.
Content Mambot to display the selected text in a magazine style cut-out text box with a drop shadow. Pure CSS no javascript. Lots of admin backend parameters to change including:- TextBox text - the font-colour, size, style, alignment. TextBox - background colour. TextBox - border-style, colour and size drop shadow - left or right, colour and size Position - Float left, right or none Echo or repeat text. Mambot frontend override in text by use of parametes within the curly brackets:- at present only 3 - text, alignment of text, colour of text. Tested with 1.0.12 in FF1.5 & 2.0 also ie7.0 for xhtml output. Full instructions in the mambot. This an Alpha release - more features to follow. Hope you enjoy this one, it was a long journey for me.
I have a solution for the reported IE6 problem. This will be released when I move over to the new forge.

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User Reviews (8)

Great extension by seraaj, July 7, 2008

Installed like a charm, worked right "out of the box" with no tweaking. Only negative: I'd like to be able to get rid of the bounding box when I want-- a parameter like border=no would do nicely.

But beside that, this is a must have for every toolbox!

No top border showing by RobiW, April 17, 2007

Installed and everthing works fine in FireFox but in IE6 top border didn't show.

Have separate stylesheet for IE to solve other formatting problems and added:-
.wtwshadowboxbot2 {
width:100%;
}

Seems to have done the trick for me at least!

regards

Owner's reply:
This issue has been fixed in version 0.6 due for release when this project gets moved to the new forge. The Joomla team say this will be before the end of the month (April).

This type of IE6 problem is rare and version 0.5 works for most templates, glad you were able to use the second named css class in your external stylesheet to target and solve your problem.

Great little Mambot by webchem, April 5, 2007

1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

This is a great little mambot and MUCH easier to use that others in this area - nice one!

Good work! by jeroen_kouwenberg, March 8, 2007

1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

Very nice mambot with lots of parameters. I hope the developer will keep up the good work and add more parameters. But so far is is already very good. No problems with installation and display in Firefox en IE 7.

Fantastic, but..... by DATA, February 26, 2007

1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

I've installed it and it works just fine in IE7 and FF, but when it comes to IE6 no images added via mosimage nor via JCE show up. Same thing happens with the josquote mambot.

I love it, but unfortunately IE6 is still around, so this bug must be fixed somewhat.

Anyway, as soon as it's fixed I'll reinstall it.

Well done! ;-)

Owner's reply:
I have setup a test page for this problem, http://www.websthatwork.co.uk/shadow-box.

It works in my IE6. Use my Discussion tab over at the Forge so we can get this sorted out. http://forge.joomla.org/sf/discussion/do/listForums/projects.wtw_shadow_box/discussion

Very Useful... by nickers, February 24, 2007

2 of 2 people find this review helpful:

I agree this is useful and probably belongs in every toolbox. A couple of things to watch for. The default installation sets 'Echo/Repeat Text' to on, which took me a while to track down as that setting is not normal to me. And the 'Shadow Box margins' default to only two attributes when you can use four.

Lastly, it would be more useful if the front-end tag attributes included all those of the back-end.

Please keep up the good work!

Owner's reply:
Margins are set as css shorthand 2px 4px, this is the same as 2px top and bottom, 4px right and left. I am working on adding more to front end, but the next release will be focused on the backend

Way too cool! by jdude, February 22, 2007

1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

Excellent Mambot. Works like a charm and I love the "Echo/Repeat Text" feature.

Keep up the good work!

JD

Very Cool Effect by gresham, February 22, 2007

1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

Mambot installed without a hitch, published & worked in seconds. Has a very clean look on the frontend. lots of parameters for the admin. Good work !

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