[geeklog-devel] CSS-Layout possible!

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

machinari,

Is that an objection to my suggestion or a sign that this should work fine?
if its an objection: I think that the (IMHO) best practice methods 
should be in the core and not stuck to a small amount of special layouts.

Oliver

machinari wrote:
> been done with a custom COM_siteheader in the theme's functions.inc file.
> mach
>
> on 17/09/2007 6:47 PM Oliver Spiesshofer wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I found a way how to make a CSS-only layout (no tables) that takes 
>> into account that sometimes we do not have any right (or left) blocks.
>> The important thing here is that the right or left column vanishes 
>> visually completely.
>>
>> The issue with the solution is that the right blocks have to be in 
>> the sourcecode _before_ the center block. Otherwise the right float 
>> does not work.
>>
>> If you want to take a look, please open
>>
>> http://tokyoahead.com/test.html
>>
>> In order to make this work, we have to change the COM_siteHeader and 
>> COM_siteFooter so that both right and left blocks are shown by the 
>> siteHeader function.
>>
>> This would allow a much greater flixibility to the layout since two 
>> of the three major design elements would come from one function and 
>> be in one layout file. Only he center content would be appended in 
>> the end.
>>
>> >From my point of view there is nothing to object to that, the 
>> overall layout could look exactly the same, there could be a 
>> reduction in template code and a much larger flexibility for template 
>> coders, not to mention that we would stop using tables for layout.
>>
>> Still, before I do this, I would like to hear if there are any 
>> objections to that.
>>
>> Oliver
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