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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: Tuning the layout of published html
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Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Robert Klein <roklein@roklein.de> writes:
>>
>>> Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>>> More specifically, I would like to add, on all pages, a navigation bar
>>>> on the left-hand side and a title bar with no functionality on the top
>>>> of each page.
>>>
>>> You can use the preamble and postamble features for this.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> A lot depends on the CSS.  I'm dumping one here, not a very good one...
>>
>> FWIW, this seems like a perfect place to use flexboxes, where the actual
>> location of the elements in the document matters a bit less...
>
> A quick search on flexboxes looks promising indeed. I guess it would be
> possible to open a flexbox div in preamble and close it in
> postamble. Or maybe I can make the body of the page a flexbox in the
> CSS?

Yep, it's all doable from CSS alone. So long as the elements you want to
align are siblings (and can be uniquely selected) that's all you need.