[pmwiki-users] CSS in HTML pages
Joachim Durchholz
jo at durchholz.org
Thu Jun 15 16:54:45 CDT 2006
Patrick R. Michaud schrieb:
> Sure, there are at least two easy ways to do it:
>
> 1. In pub/css/local.css
>
> .indent { margin-left:1.5em; }
I haven't tested this, but the CSS specs say that in cases of identical
specifity, the later style will win. In PmWiki, this means the
HTML-based CSS takes priority, i.e. the styles from pmwiki.css will be
of lower precedence.
Hmm... I'd probably have to reverse the order in the skin:
<!--HeaderText--> first, then <link rel='stylesheet'...>.
I'm not 100% sure whether all browsers will honor the changed order
though. They might handle pulled-in CSS differently from inline CSS
(that would be contrary to the W3C specs as I understand them, but that
doesn't mean that IE will stick with that interpretation).
> 2. Create a new $HTMLStylesFmt setting in config.php:
>
> $HTMLStylesFmt[] = ' .indent { margin-left:1.5em; } ';
Ah - I didn't know that the 'pmwiki' in $HTMLSTylesFmt['pmwiki'] was
essentially commentary.
The downside of this solution is that it won't work with skins.
In general, I'm a bit confused about PmWiki's distribution of CSS over
pmwiki.css and $HTMLStylesFmt. I think $HTMLStylesFmt should cover only
those things that are part of PmWiki's semantics, i.e.
code { white-space: nowrap; }
.vspace { margin-top:1.33em; }
The other settings seem to be mainly for visual appearance, hence I'd
have expected to find them in pub/skins/pmwiki/pmwiki.css:
.indent
.outdent
a.createlinktext
a.createlink
img
.apprlink
(Some of that visual appearance is important, of course, so there's
justification to put some of that in $HTMLStyleFmt anyway. But not
everything, at least IMHO.)
Regards,
Jo
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