[pmwiki-users] Notebook-NT-Skin - some more tests

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sat Sep 2 16:30:26 CDT 2006


On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:55:45AM +0530, VKrishn wrote:
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 00:59, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > Just looked (19:29 UTC).  That page doesn't show the problem
> > because the bottom border of the sidebar is higher than the
> > bottom border of the image.
> >
> > If you make the sidebar very long on the insteps.net site
> > (as I've now done on pmwiki.org in the Test group), then
> > I think you'll see the problem there as well.
> ah yes.
> I guess the present solution I can think of is a small script that calculates 
> the screen resolution and fixes both the sidebar and right wiki-text area.
> I am still trying with other options, hope it does not get too complicated, 
> worse write a browser specific css.

Well, as Hans and I have both experienced, it rapidly gets very
complicated.  :-|

Pm


> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:19:19AM +0530, VKrishn wrote:
> > > Could you have look here
> > > http://insteps.net/test/notebook-nt/pmwiki.php/Test/Notebook-NT
> > >
> > > V.Krishn
> > >
> > > On Sunday 03 September 2006 00:43, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:00:46AM +0530, VKrishn wrote:
> > > > > I can see some whitespace in first instance of the test. I pasted the
> > > > > same code below to repeat and the problem seems to have gone.
> > > > > Pls have a look at.
> > > > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Notebook-NT-Skin?skin=notebook-nt
> > > >
> > > > The problem will only occur once.  What is happening is that
> > > > we have a floating image, and then the [[<<]] markup
> > > > creates a <br clear='all' /> that causes the text to skip to
> > > > below any floating elements.
> > > >
> > > > Since the left sidebar is a floating element, the clear='all'
> > > > attribute is causing the text to jump to the bottom of the left
> > > > sidebar content, as opposed to the bottom of the image.  Later
> > > > instances of [[<<]] won't show this problem because we've already
> > > > skipped past the floating left sidebar.
> > > >
> > > > Pm
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > pmwiki-users mailing list
> > > > pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> > > > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > pmwiki-users mailing list
> > pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
> 




More information about the pmwiki-users mailing list