>>>> >>>> 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: >>> >>> >>>

-- center the page if desired >>>

-- center the page if desired >> >> Why always IDs as opposed to classes? > > > `percent-50' and `wrap' are there for a special purpose and unique in > that concern. `wrap' is the `content' you originally requested. I did > not use my brain and called it `wrap' without any annotation. "content" or "org-container". Wrap made no sense to me. It suggests word wrap in the context. wrapper would be better. Purely vocabulary issue. > >>>> :preamble "

> > I'd say they should have an ID assigned. Just an academic question : Why not a class? > > > >> Can css selectors select based on a part of a name? If not then there is >> no link between column-1 and column-2. e.g in this convention how does >> one create a common style for all columns or all "sec-" objects? > > Aaah, OK, sorry for being unclear - a misunderstanding. > > I did *not* mean to _change_ the structure of the XHTML in it's > current FYI I have abandoned xhtml in the smalle bit of web UI I touch.. It is not cross platform/browser. Common concensus says make it html 4.01 strict compliant. > form, but simply _add_ additional containers to partition the whole > thing (just as you suggested) and thus make it possible to move certain > groups of content around through CSS. > > All the "sec-" objects should go into `column-2'. I dont know/understand what you mean with "columns". Columns suggest layout in columns. It should simply be a "wrapper". That wrapper may or may not be CSSd to a column. It might be a float or a fixed position or ..... > All the `sec-' objects share classes via the containers they live in: > >

> > etc. Yes. Thats what I was suggesting but see later on regarding css descendants. > > That's already the case, and I think we don't need to change that. > There is still this difference between ID and class name. I'm not sure I see why. > > * Suggestions for names > > `wrap' is, what they use in typolight and some other CMSs. But > `content' sounds good to me too. > >

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where is the "base" class for box-2? The issue I see is that theres no way using this method to change all "sec-" entries in an outline container for example since you cant use css descendants since all have *unique* class names and IDs. >

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I'm not sure I understand the need for the container container. Maybe I need to Google up centering vertically. > > > >>> >>>

-- Help with fixed TOC >>>

>>> the toc >>>

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-- Help with fixed TOC >>> All the rest of the content goes here >>>

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>>> postamble >>>

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>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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! >> >> Can one not simply use .body for that? >> >>> - 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, >>> >>> -- >>> Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover >>> Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472 >>> Fax: +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044 >>> mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417 >>> Http: www.emma-stil.de >>> > > -- > Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover > Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472 > Fax: +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044 > mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417 > Email: s.rose@emma-stil.de, sebastian_rose@gmx.de > Http: www.emma-stil.de > -- important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970