[css-d] CSS footnotes

2012-10-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR 

When an HTML link references an on-page fragment that is near the
bottom of the page, the browser (when the link is followed) will
display that page fragment as close to the top of the page as it
can subject to the more important constraint that the last line
of the page content will not be higher than the bottom of the browser
window.  Is there any Magic CSS that can be applied (?to the final
element of the page?) that would allow the on-page fragment to rise
to the top of the browser window when required yet not generate
vertical scroll bars other than those mandated bo other aspects of
the page's dimensions ?

Philip Taylor
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Re: [css-d] CSS footnotes

2012-10-30 Thread Jukka K. Korpela 

2012-10-30 20:08, Philip TAYLOR wrote:


When an HTML link references an on-page fragment that is near the
bottom of the page, the browser (when the link is followed) will
display that page fragment as close to the top of the page as it
can subject to the more important constraint that the last line
of the page content will not be higher than the bottom of the browser
window.  Is there any Magic CSS that can be applied (?to the final
element of the page?) that would allow the on-page fragment to rise
to the top of the browser window when required yet not generate
vertical scroll bars other than those mandated bo other aspects of
the page's dimensions ?


I'm afraid there isn't. I can't see how we could position the page as a 
whole that way, even though we could position the element that the 
fragment refers to.


But to address the basic problem of recognizing what the link really 
took the user to, you can do some styling on the :target pseudo-class, e.g.


 :target {
   background: #ffd;
   color: black;
   border: dotted 1px;
 }

Then it suddenly becomes important how the link destination has been 
marked up, as this code highlight the specific element that has the 
corresponding id attribute (or the matching a name=../a element, 
id that old-style markup was used).


Yucca


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Re: [css-d] CSS footnotes

2012-10-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR 



Jukka K. Korpela wrote:


But to address the basic problem of recognizing what the link really
took the user to, you can do some styling on the :target pseudo-class, e.g.

  :target {
background: #ffd;
color: black;
border: dotted 1px;
  }

Then it suddenly becomes important how the link destination has been
marked up, as this code highlight the specific element that has the
corresponding id attribute (or the matching a name=../a element,
id that old-style markup was used).


Thanks, Jukka : that is what I have proposed to the author, but he
really wants me to emulate the printed page.  I may succeed in
convincing him given sufficient time; other members of the group
are in favour of more modern presentation styles ...

** Phil.
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