Try applying or overriding this stylesheet to an unstyled page: http://www.blueprintcss.org/blueprint/src/typography.css It's from blueprint [http://www.blueprintcss.org/], but there are other base stylesheets like YUI [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/base/]
Styles injected into the head can foul things up, but I think applying a css reset stylesheet provides a consistent starting point. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Oliver Betz <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Giacherio wrote: > > [...] > > >Personally I don't find the 'can of worms' that daunting. I feel there are > a > >fair number of css reset and default stylesheets out there that do a great > >job of styling standard tags. If you start there, what's left is a finite > >number of block-level element combinations that need adjusting. > > Can yo give an example? > > I started a test case http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Vspace to > demonstrate the current PmWiki behaviour and "interesting" situations. > > Most people simply put vertical margins on every text element. But I > dislike this space between a table border and text. > > See the test case - the list items, the paragraph and the image should > all be aligned IMO. > > Try other skins, e.g. > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Vspace?skin=monobook - list items are > misaligned. > > Try a skin avoiding PmWiki's vspace handling (is there any on > PmWiki.org?) and it gets more complicated. > > Nevertheless the tons of class='vspace' are not exactly beautiful. > > I talked to several very experienced web designers about using PmWiki > as a CMS, and most of them strongly disliked the lots of CSS > statements in the markup and the vspace handling. > > Oliver > > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users > -- Paul Giacherio http://paulgiacherio.com
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