Thanks Brett for the clear answer. I agree with you, tables is hardcoded
layout stuff, and a distinct separation of layout and content is also what I
prefer.
Did you try to stretch the nav column with css yourself? I would appreciate
some help. When trying to extend the maven-basic.css to stretch to the
extend of the page there are basically to ids the should be considered:
<html>
...
<body class="composite">
...
<div id="leftColumn">
<div id="navcolumn">
...
In my mave-basic.css I added the following instructions:
#navcolumn {
...
height: 100%;
}
#leftColumn {
...
height: 100%;
...
}
However, no stretching is visible. Any clue what would do the trick?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel Frey
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Von: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 08:38
An: Maven Users List
Betreff: Re: table vs. div tag in site
Actually, db.apache.org was done with an older version of Maven. You can get
that look and feel, using the <div/> approach, using
maven.xdoc.theme=classic.
Note that the table style is definitely not a good way to be doing layout,
and the web is moving much more towards (albeit slowly) CSS driven layout.
You can customise with a whole new site.jsl as recommended, but also by just
supplying an alternate stylesheet (preferred). The stylesheet could easily
set the left nav to extend to 100% of the content.
- Brett
On 4/28/05, J�rg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Frey wrote on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:42 PM:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I am revising my sites css. I would like the left navigation column
> > to have ist gray background going to the bottom of the page. Trying
> > to find out how this can be achieve I have found that there are two
> > different types of maven sites on the web:
> > 1. Those I get where the left and body columns are just wrapped into
> > a div tag (i.e. http://maven.apache.org/), and 2. those where they
> > are placed with a table (i.e.
> > http://db.apache.org/). I would like to have the table version, as
> > it fullfills my needs easily. How can I switch to this type of
> > documentation? Are there templates to be exchanged or so?
>
> There's only one Maven site on the web, the one with CSS. db.apache.org is
not done with Maven. You can apply your own template though by defining your
own site.jsl (see xdoc-plugin docs). Drawback is that you have to update all
parts taken from the original with every new release of the plugin yourself.
>
> - J�rg
>
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