Re: Tuning the layout of published html

[Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi>]

Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> writes:

> Jarmo Hurri writes:
>
>>> and position the different parts as needed with CSS.
>>
>> This is where I don't know what exactly is going to happen. Org writes
>> quite a bit of CSS in each exported HTML file. If I add in, say, a
>> vertical navigation bar, how am I going to control its placement with
>> respect to everything else that is already in the CSS?
>
> Say you put the navbar at the end of the HTML preamble and give it a
> #navbar id (<div id="navbar">). Org already gives the main content a
> #content id. Then this should be all the CSS you need to get started:
>
> #navbar { float: left;
>           ...loads more CSS here...
>           }
> #content { float: left;
>            ...and more CSS here...
>            }

Yes indeed, something like this seems to work.

For anyone embarking on a similar trip, a tight placement of the
horizontal title bar on top of the page requires, among other things,
something along the following lines in your CSS:

body
{
    margin: 0;
}

All the best,

Jarmo