[pmwiki-users] Core and question marks
Pico
pmwiki at ben-amotz.com
Mon Aug 28 11:13:35 CDT 2006
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:28:15AM -0400, Pico wrote:
>> The one added twist I would like to accomplish is to be able to add a
>> similar span without necessarily having to provide an alias. That's not
>> a huge deal, because you can simply use the Name variable to supply the
>> alias if what you want is the span without changing the displayed link,
>> [...]
>> But for other (non-pagelist) links, it would be nice not to have to
>> supply an alias when you prefer just to use the page name.
>>
>> Is there a workaround that I haven't stumbled upon?
>
> Not at the moment.
>
>> I guess I could use the title, like this:
>>
>> [[Group.Page|+%popup%This is the text to appear in the popup]]
>
> This doesn't work (yet?), because '+' gets replaced with the
> title only if it's the only thing in the replacement text.
>
> But we could perhaps see about extending the title markup to
> allow this, if the %popup% idiom becomes popular enough.
>
FYI,
Other cool uses for spans in links include hiding and displaying images.
For example, a navigational menu bar can use small images to get a nicer
looking tab effect and, in that case, you span should simply wrap the
displayed alias, which you can do in PmWiki like this
[[Group.Page|%tabs%Displayed alias%%]]
The underlying CSS can then use two images for the left and right pieces
of the tab like this:
#tabs a {
float:left;
background:url("tableft.gif") no-repeat left top;
...
}
#tabs a span {
float:left;
display:block;
background:url("tabright.gif") no-repeat right top;
...
}
See http://exploding-boy.com/images/cssmenus/menus.html
I'd like to play with a similar idea for a gallery site, where a
hoovering over each thumbnail causes the full sized image to appear on
the page.
Pico
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