Hello Alex,

many thanks for your quick and good answer. It works well.
I do not use firebug, but with Notepad++ such customizings are
possible, too.

Would it be possible to implement with a tiddler to activate / disable
this function without source-code changing?

Many thanks,
Zapata


On 5 Mrz., 16:38, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Zapata,
>
> You need to edit the StyleSheet shadow tiddler to overwrite the existing
> formatting instructions.
>
> Using FireBug [1] , I can see that the sidebar is currently positioned by
> the following CCS [2] code
>
> #sidebar {
> font-size:0.9em;
> position:absolute;
> right:3px;
>
> }
>
> 'right:3px' after 'position:absolute' means 'place the sidebar 3 pixels from
> the right hand side of the screen'
>
> SO
> you could change the 'right' to 'left' ;
>
> #sidebar {
> font-size:0.9em;
> position:absolute;
> left:3px;
>
> }
>
> This then uncovers a problem: the sidebar is on the left, but it overlaps
> the rest of the content. The solution is to shift the 'display area'.
> Looking in StylesheetLayout or using Firebug we can see the following;
>
> #displayArea {
> background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
> border-left:2px solid #8895BB;
> margin:1em 15.7em 0 1em;
>
> }
>
> The bit we need to change here is the margin. The four values give the
> margin in 'em' - another way of setting size. (1em is the size of one
> character, and, unlike 1px, changes when you use the zoom feature in your
> browser.)
>
> The order of the margin values are top, right, bottom, left ; i remember it
> by thinking clockwise starting at 12o'clock.
>
> So to shift the display area over you have to experiment with the left
> value, and since you have some space where the sidebar once lived, you might
> also want to tweek the right value;
>
> Try this;
>
> #displayArea {
> background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
> border-left:2px solid #8895BB;
> margin:1em 1em 0 16em;
>
> }
>
> Normally you would only include the part of the CSS you need to overwrite.
> But here I have cut and pasted from Firebug; should you investigate it you
> will be able to clearly observe my process.
>
> This would do the trick:
>
> #displayArea {
> margin:1em 1em 0 16em;
>
> }
>
> Hope this helps
>
> ALex
>
> [1]http://getfirebug.com/
> [2]http://www.w3schools.com/css/
>
> On 5 March 2010 10:56, Zapata <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi together,
>
> > I just found the TiddlyWiki 2.5.3 and the Themes a couple of days ago
> > and want to use it with the theme "blueberry2" (http://
> > tiddlythemes.com/empties/Blueberry2.html). So long, so good and it
> > works fine. Thanks.
>
> > My question now: how can I change the style to get the sidebar on the
> > left and not on the right of the page?
>
> > Sorry, I am not so deep in this to get it by my own. Could anyone help
> > me please?
>
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > Zapata
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