[Pmwiki-users] Re: %class=something% (was Re: Extending ...)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:45:00PM -0500, J. Perkins wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >Approach #1:  A wikistyle appearing at the beginning of a line 
> >applies to the entire line (block), generating a <div> as needed.
> 
> I like this approach, if it is feasible. That is, a wikistyle that 
> appears at the start of a line, and which is not ended within the line, 
> becomes a <div>. Wikistyles that start and/or end within the line use a 
> <span>. 

Depends on what you mean by "is not ended within the line".  Consider

   %stylea% text text %styleb% text text %% more text.

Technically speaking, the %styleb% markup ends the %stylea% WikiStyle.

> How about allowing the "display" CSS selector? Then you could switch 
> styles with %display:block% or %display:inline%.

I've been thinking of doing something along these lines--a wikistyle 
acts on the block if it contains a display=block definition.  

BTW, I should also make it clear that I prefer to keep the semantic
that all styles in %...% are terminated at the end of the current markup
line.  If we want a div to span multiple markup lines, it would have
to be done with [=...=], trailing backslashes, or something like 
[[div]]...[[divend]].

Pm