[pmwiki-users] Re: Re: <div> markup suggestions...?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:48:43PM -0500, Bronwyn Boltwood wrote:
> 
> I suggest we take a cue from the table markup, and provide both simple
> and advanced methods.  Simple divs can't be nested, but their markup
> is easy to write, because they'll be used frequently.  Advanced divs
> can be nested, and have closing tags that allow both humans and PmWiki
> to determine which closing tag belongs to which div.

I'm not planning to do nested advanced divs, sorry.  (Even
PmWiki's advanced tables don't nest.)

> Like Dan McMullen, I'd like block wikistyles to be able to contain
> multiple paragraphs.  When I first encountered them, I expected a
> block wikistyle to stay on until I turned it off.  (Disclaimer: I code
> HTML.)  Does anybody have a good user-level reason for simple divs and
> block wikistyles to stay separate?

Yes, when styling a list the style should not propagate beyond the
end of the list.  Rather than try to overload %block style% to this
purpose, I'd prefer to introduce an explicit [%style%] that works
over blocks and is syntactically distinct from existing wiki styles.

Pm