[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Directive for disabling the side-bar

Christian Ridderström chr
Tue Feb 10 16:00:38 CST 2004


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:07:53PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > 
> > Oops... I was too quick there. It turns out that [[noheader]] turned off 
> > the sidebar, whereas [[nosidebar]] does nothing AFAICT.
> 
> In the standard layout the sidebar is considered to be part of the header;
> there's no separate [[nosidebar]] directive.  And for many 
> layouts/stylesheets turning off the sidebar really does necessitate 
> a change in the stylesheet (and sometimes the XHTML) being used.
> AFAICT, there's not an easy way in CSS to have columns that change 
> width/position depending on the display of other columns *and* that 
> works in the popular browsers (notably IE).  This is one area where
> working with tables is definitely easier than CSS.

I.e., if we wanted a [[nosidebar]], that'd mean the directive 
would have to cause a different CSS to be used. Shouldn't be impossible, 
but hardly a priority.

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr





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