Re: export and containers

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: export and containers
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:23:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2C16E559-565E-4832-B5B9-C57504438508@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eixikd1u.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ>

Hi Sebastian,

I could do this.  Would this mean that org-info.js would become
backward not compatible with older pages?  I believe quite a few  
people actually
pull org-info.js from orgmode.org.

- Carsten

On Feb 28, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>> It's been a while since I've looked at my org set up. One thing that
>> always struck me as a bit hacky was my use of
>>
>> :preamble "<div id='content'>
>>
>> and the corresponding postamble to enclose the exported web pages  
>> into a
>> "container" div. Is there a better way to do this? I would think it
>> would be a common enough need that by default or via an option all  
>> html
>> should be enclosed in a "webcontainer" ID.
>
> While one container around everything makes it possible to center the
> page horizontally, two containers make it possible to center the page
> vertically as well.
>
> If we would go and change the structure once again, I'd even suggest  
> the
> following:
>
> <body>
>  <div id="percent-50">         -- center the page if desired
>    <div id="wrap">             -- center the page if desired
>
>      <div id="column-1">       -- Help with fixed TOC
>        <div id="table-of-contents">
>          the toc
>        </div>
>      </div>
>
>      <div id="column-2">       -- Help with fixed TOC
>        All the rest of the content goes here
>      </div>
>
>      <div id="postamble">
>        postamble
>      </div>
>
>    </div>
>  </div>
> </body>
>
>
>
> Having two boxes for the TOC would make the fixed TOC work in IE. In
> general, I prefere to use two kinds of Boxes:
>
>  - one for positioning, floating and so on. This one should have _no_
>    padding or margin at all!
>  - one for margin, padding, styling.
>
> I found, this is the only way to reliably enforce a layout across
> browsers.
>
>
> column-1 and column-2 are for that very reason. All we can do to put  
> the
> TOC to the left or right is, to add margins to the body or the level 1
> contents, and place it there. This is, what causes the problems with  
> the
> fixed TOC in IE. `column-1' and `column-2' (and `postamble') make it
> possible, to adjust the layout in various common ways.
>
> The `percent-50' (oh what a name) and `wrap' are just there, to be  
> able
> to center the whole page horizontally _and_ veritcally.
>
>
> Best,
>
> --
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