[pmwiki-users] Idea - place TOC in sidebar? (Was: Avoiding Headings in the SideBar)

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-08-12  07:55 AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:28:05AM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> > A note on the side (pun intended). Would it be possible to fix the
> > position of the TOC vertically in the sidebar, in such a way that when you
> > scroll down the page you can still always see the TOC? This might be
> > useful for very large pages (or it's a case of featuritis).
>
>Well, the CSS property for this is "position:fixed", so if there's
>some way to get the TOC attached to an element with this property,
>then it'll stay fixed on the page at the same location.

Doesn't the FixFlow skin do exactly this?

The only problem with a "fixed" sidebar (one that is always visible within 
the viewing window) is that any items that fall below the bottom edge of 
the window are unreachable. You can see this effect on: 
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FixFlowSkin . On my screen the "Tamil" 
entry is cut off, and I can't see anything below it.


Neil

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