Hi Martin,

> Well, if you change every intended span to be on block-level, there
> will be a huge influence on the rest of your CSS. 
er, like what? Could you elaborate on this one, please?

> So I wouldn't do this for each and every text-field.
Well, our actual status is, that we're doing it for each and every non-input
text-field...

As always, best thanks, 
Carsten


Martin Marinschek wrote:
> 
> Well, if you change every intended span to be on block-level, there
> will be a huge influence on the rest of your CSS. So I wouldn't do
> this for each and every text-field.
> 
> @sidenote: I wonder what the markup/JS/CSS looked like for this to
> work in CIS (your existing web-framework)? Maybe we could replicate it
> from there?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Martin
> 
> On 8/13/07, Carsten Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> perhaps I should be a little more speicific:
>>
>> We want to be able to delimit the length of the outputText's text (so
>> that
>> long text's won't
>> break our pages' layout). The way we came up to achieve this was to have
>> something like
>>     display: block;
>>     overflow: hidden;
>> in our CSS. Without this CSS-tweaking above, a width definition via the
>> inlineStyle attribute
>> has no effect (as you'll surely know; I just mention it for those of us
>> lesser experts...).
>> If the text now gets longer than the "inlineStylish" width, it still can
>> be
>> accessed
>> by/presented to the user via the tooltip (shortDesc).
>>
>> Thus, we enhanced the OutputTextRenderer to be styleclass-aware and to
>> set
>> the tooltip
>> accordingly (if no other tooltip is defined).
>>
>> Do you consider this to be contrary to the "intended spirit" of the
>> outputText (eh, or even
>> weird) or is this approach OK?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Carsten
>>
>>
>>
>> Adam Winer wrote:
>> >
>> > Generally speaking, you don't want to do this for
>> > outputText:  you want to style parent components
>> > and/or the default font of the skin, not the outputText
>> > itself.
>> >
>> > -- Adam
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8/10/07, Carsten Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> OK, thanks for the speedy answer!
>> >>
>> >> So it look's we should build our own renderer...
>> >
>>
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