Hi,
I've a CSS hack that does something like what you suggest. Attached is a
screenshot and a zip file containing a css file and a png file. To use
it, I put the files in the zip in the same directory as the
userContent.css and added a @import url(quoteHack.css); to it. I've only
tested this on win32, might not work as well on other systems because of
font differences.
Basic LW
Dylan Schiemann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just thinking about Daniel's comments and Stuart's reply, and it gave me
> a few really rough ideas. I could see a possibility of this working by
> emulating the behavior for marker elements, with replaced content in either
> the margin or padding. By default, you could have a repeat-x value for the
> marker equal to the line height of the content contained inside.
>
> Another possibility would be to extend background to include text characters,
> which could base their repeat-x value on the line-height of their container.
> So the style for an element would be something like:
>
> p{padding-left:1.5em;background: char(">") repeat-x;}
>
> or, if margins could have their own background, it could be:
>
> p{margin-left: 1.5em char(">") repeat-x;}
>
> While this doesn't explicity "add" the content to the document, it could give
> the desired view.
>
> -Dylan Schiemann
> http://www.dylanschiemann.com/
quoteHack.zip
