AW: table vs. div tag in site
Thanks Brett for the clear answer. I agree with you, tables is hardcoded layout stuff, and a distinct separation of layout and content is also what I prefer. Did you try to stretch the nav column with css yourself? I would appreciate some help. When trying to extend the maven-basic.css to stretch to the extend of the page there are basically to ids the should be considered: ... ... ... In my mave-basic.css I added the following instructions: #navcolumn { ... height: 100%; } #leftColumn { ... height: 100%; ... } However, no stretching is visible. Any clue what would do the trick? Thanks in advance. Daniel Frey -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 08:38 An: Maven Users List Betreff: Re: table vs. div tag in site Actually, db.apache.org was done with an older version of Maven. You can get that look and feel, using the approach, using maven.xdoc.theme=classic. Note that the table style is definitely not a good way to be doing layout, and the web is moving much more towards (albeit slowly) CSS driven layout. You can customise with a whole new site.jsl as recommended, but also by just supplying an alternate stylesheet (preferred). The stylesheet could easily set the left nav to extend to 100% of the content. - Brett On 4/28/05, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:42 PM: > > > Hello > > > > I am revising my sites css. I would like the left navigation column > > to have ist gray background going to the bottom of the page. Trying > > to find out how this can be achieve I have found that there are two > > different types of maven sites on the web: > > 1. Those I get where the left and body columns are just wrapped into > > a div tag (i.e. http://maven.apache.org/), and 2. those where they > > are placed with a table (i.e. > > http://db.apache.org/). I would like to have the table version, as > > it fullfills my needs easily. How can I switch to this type of > > documentation? Are there templates to be exchanged or so? > > There's only one Maven site on the web, the one with CSS. db.apache.org is not done with Maven. You can apply your own template though by defining your own site.jsl (see xdoc-plugin docs). Drawback is that you have to update all parts taken from the original with every new release of the plugin yourself. > > - Jörg > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: table vs. div tag in site
I just tried google feeling lucky with "100% height div" and got this: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/200.htm makes sense - try 100% on the body (but also test what happens when you resize to less than the size of the content to make that doesn't get mucked up). HTH, Brett On 4/28/05, Daniel Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Brett for the clear answer. I agree with you, tables is hardcoded > layout stuff, and a distinct separation of layout and content is also what I > prefer. > > Did you try to stretch the nav column with css yourself? I would appreciate > some help. When trying to extend the maven-basic.css to stretch to the > extend of the page there are basically to ids the should be considered: > > > ... > > ... > > >... > > In my mave-basic.css I added the following instructions: > > #navcolumn { > ... > height: 100%; > } > > #leftColumn { > ... > height: 100%; > ... > } > > However, no stretching is visible. Any clue what would do the trick? > > Thanks in advance. > Daniel Frey > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 08:38 > An: Maven Users List > Betreff: Re: table vs. div tag in site > > Actually, db.apache.org was done with an older version of Maven. You can get > that look and feel, using the approach, using > maven.xdoc.theme=classic. > > Note that the table style is definitely not a good way to be doing layout, > and the web is moving much more towards (albeit slowly) CSS driven layout. > > You can customise with a whole new site.jsl as recommended, but also by just > supplying an alternate stylesheet (preferred). The stylesheet could easily > set the left nav to extend to 100% of the content. > > - Brett > > On 4/28/05, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel Frey wrote on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:42 PM: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I am revising my sites css. I would like the left navigation column > > > to have ist gray background going to the bottom of the page. Trying > > > to find out how this can be achieve I have found that there are two > > > different types of maven sites on the web: > > > 1. Those I get where the left and body columns are just wrapped into > > > a div tag (i.e. http://maven.apache.org/), and 2. those where they > > > are placed with a table (i.e. > > > http://db.apache.org/). I would like to have the table version, as > > > it fullfills my needs easily. How can I switch to this type of > > > documentation? Are there templates to be exchanged or so? > > > > There's only one Maven site on the web, the one with CSS. db.apache.org is > not done with Maven. You can apply your own template though by defining your > own site.jsl (see xdoc-plugin docs). Drawback is that you have to update all > parts taken from the original with every new release of the plugin yourself. > > > > - Jörg > > > > - > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: table vs. div tag in site
Actually, db.apache.org was done with an older version of Maven. You can get that look and feel, using the approach, using maven.xdoc.theme=classic. Note that the table style is definitely not a good way to be doing layout, and the web is moving much more towards (albeit slowly) CSS driven layout. You can customise with a whole new site.jsl as recommended, but also by just supplying an alternate stylesheet (preferred). The stylesheet could easily set the left nav to extend to 100% of the content. - Brett On 4/28/05, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:42 PM: > > > Hello > > > > I am revising my sites css. I would like the left navigation > > column to have ist gray background going to the bottom of the > > page. Trying to find out how this can be achieve I have found > > that there are two different types of maven sites on the web: > > 1. Those I get where the left and body columns are just > > wrapped into a div tag (i.e. http://maven.apache.org/), and > > 2. those where they are placed with a table (i.e. > > http://db.apache.org/). I would like to have the table > > version, as it fullfills my needs easily. How can I switch to > > this type of documentation? Are there templates to be exchanged or so? > > There's only one Maven site on the web, the one with CSS. db.apache.org is > not done with Maven. You can apply your own template though by defining your > own site.jsl (see xdoc-plugin docs). Drawback is that you have to update all > parts taken from the original with every new release of the plugin yourself. > > - Jörg > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: table vs. div tag in site
Daniel Frey wrote on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:42 PM: > Hello > > I am revising my sites css. I would like the left navigation > column to have ist gray background going to the bottom of the > page. Trying to find out how this can be achieve I have found > that there are two different types of maven sites on the web: > 1. Those I get where the left and body columns are just > wrapped into a div tag (i.e. http://maven.apache.org/), and > 2. those where they are placed with a table (i.e. > http://db.apache.org/). I would like to have the table > version, as it fullfills my needs easily. How can I switch to > this type of documentation? Are there templates to be exchanged or so? There's only one Maven site on the web, the one with CSS. db.apache.org is not done with Maven. You can apply your own template though by defining your own site.jsl (see xdoc-plugin docs). Drawback is that you have to update all parts taken from the original with every new release of the plugin yourself. - Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
table vs. div tag in site
Hello I am revising my sites css. I would like the left navigation column to have ist gray background going to the bottom of the page. Trying to find out how this can be achieve I have found that there are two different types of maven sites on the web: 1. Those I get where the left and body columns are just wrapped into a div tag (i.e. http://maven.apache.org/), and 2. those where they are placed with a table (i.e. http://db.apache.org/). I would like to have the table version, as it fullfills my needs easily. How can I switch to this type of documentation? Are there templates to be exchanged or so? Thanks Daniel Frey - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]