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    I have a feature request.  I need to directly edit the HTML of my blog post.  It would also be nice to apply a custom CSS class to the text.  Is any of this possible already?
    Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:29 PM
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    Rob, you can edit the HTML by going to the "Source" tab. There are three tabs at the bottom of Windows Live Writer: "Edit", "Preview" and "Source".
    Windows Live Writer Developer
    • Marked as answer by RobVolk Monday, March 01, 2010 9:17 PM
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    If your able to edit the HTML, you can work with CSS directly. CSS styles and cope can be embedded directly in to the post; I see no reason why not. Doing so may have conflicts with your site, but you could try.

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks,
    L. Henry Jr.
    http://www.lehsys.com
    Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:58 AM
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    I don't see any way to edit the HTML with Live Writer.  Am I missing something?
    Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:52 AM
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    Yes. Edit the HTML manually. Embed the CSS directly in the HTML. Write the code.

    There are plenty of CSS editors out there; Windows Live Writer doesn't have it built-in, but it can be done.

    Just trying to help...
    Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:34 AM
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    Rob, you can edit the HTML by going to the "Source" tab. There are three tabs at the bottom of Windows Live Writer: "Edit", "Preview" and "Source".
    Windows Live Writer Developer
    • Marked as answer by RobVolk Monday, March 01, 2010 9:17 PM
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    That's it!  I can't believe I didn't see the tabs at the bottom.  It'd still be nice to be able to define custom CSS classes so that you can highlight the text and apply a class.  But it's not that difficult to edit the HTML directly.
    Monday, March 01, 2010 9:18 PM
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    I'd like to be able to edit the HTML/CSS and have it auto-apply every time I post.  For instance, none of my blogs support indentation so I'd like to be able to add it into my blog post (the text-indent tag) and have it apply for every time I post.

    Don't get me started on wanting to set a default font.
    Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:10 PM
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    MrEntropy5, these are things that are generally taken care of by your blog theme. For example, if you set a default font in your blog theme's CSS files, Writer will respect this font and use it as your default.

    If you'd like to easily insert chunks of HTML, take a look at this plug-in that lehenryjr mentioned in another post:
    You can use a nice little tool called Dynamic Templates. I really suggest you go to the website and watch the videos to get the real idea of the plug-in.

    Website:
    http://www.joecheng.com/code/DynamicTemplate/

    You can do other things too; it's quite configurable to various things Windows Live Writer doesn't do by default.

    I use this to INDENT text:
    <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><br /><%= _selection %></p>

    BUT you could use this as well, but replacing the PARAGRAPH tags with CODE tags.

    Download here:
    http://wlwtemplate.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=7199
    Windows Live Writer Developer
    Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:24 PM
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    Thanks, Will. 

    I have a free Wordpress account and it doesn't let you change the CSS for your template unless you pay a fee.  I'm not ready to do that yet.  As it is, I just cut and past a <div> segment and then start writing.

    I'll check out that Dynamic Template thing, though.
    Monday, March 08, 2010 5:05 PM
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