[pmwiki-users] nested divs

[Waylan Limberg]

On 2/6/06, Hans <design at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
> Monday, February 6, 2006, 4:33:20 PM, Patrick wrote:
> > Part of the reason I chose >>div<< was because it would be a
> > convenient lever into nested divs, as in
>
> >    >>div<<
>
> >    >>>nested div<<<
>
> >    >>>nested div<<<
>
> >    >>outer div<<
>
> >    >><<
>
> interesting, but if we ever get to nested divs i think they would need
> to work without such indicators as to what the nesting level is.
> I should be able to write for instance to create a floating right bar
>
> >>rfloat width=200px<<
> (:include RightBar:)
> >><<
>
> and be able to have divs in RightBar, without needing to know what
> level they might end up in.

This would be very cool.

>
> What annoys me about HTML <div> tags is the difficulty in seeing where
> exactly one div ends. Could the ending div markup not carry an indicator as
> to which opening div markup it belongs to? Like an id attribute? Then
> we won't need to specify levels.
>
I feel your pain. Generally, when I have a number of nested divs I
always try to keep my code neatly formatted and indented. Then, as an
extra help, I'll add a few comments like so:

    <div id='div1'>
        <div id='div2'>
        ...
        </div> <!--END div1-->
    </div> <!--END div2-->

Of course, this can get a little tricky if your HTML is generated by
PHP. But, a quick run of the output through HTMLTidy usually helps
when I can't see the problem.


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Waylan Limberg
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