Greetings and salutations to all,
I've been looking around to see if anyone had attempted a four column theme before I spend countless hours attempting it. I searched the list archives but didn't find anything. What I'm wanting is the left and right side bars and then for the articles to wrap into columns similar to that of a newspaper. Possible? Feasible?
-jeremy
It shouldn't be too difficult to add another column to the center. However, getting text to flow from one column to the next seems hard.
You'd have to split the HTML by rendered height if you want two balanced columns; otherwise, you'll need to split after one column has been filled and spill the remaining text into the next column. This is awkward since if you do it on the server you won't know about things like actual column width, height, and font size, whereas if you do it on the browser you'll have to deal with Javascript :)
Djun
On 22-Jan-2006, at 6:31 PM, Jeremy Weiss wrote:
Greetings and salutations to all,
I've been looking around to see if anyone had attempted a four column theme before I spend countless hours attempting it. I searched the list archives but didn't find anything. What I'm wanting is the left and right side bars and then for the articles to wrap into columns similar to that of a newspaper. Possible? Feasible?
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Dub posted a snippet to split a node display over two equal columns. Sorry I don't have a link....Look in the php snippets or theme snippets.
Laura
puregin wrote:
It shouldn't be too difficult to add another column to the center. However, getting text to flow from one column to the next seems hard.
You'd have to split the HTML by rendered height if you want two balanced columns; otherwise, you'll need to split after one column has been filled and spill the remaining text into the next column. This is awkward since if you do it on the server you won't know about things like actual column width, height, and font size, whereas if you do it on the browser you'll have to deal with Javascript :)
DjunOn 22-Jan-2006, at 6:31 PM, Jeremy Weiss wrote:
Greetings and salutations to all,
I've been looking around to see if anyone had attempted a four column theme before I spend countless hours attempting it. I searched the list archives but didn't find anything. What I'm wanting is the left and right side bars and then for the articles to wrap into columns similar to that of a newspaper. Possible? Feasible?
-jeremy _______________________________________________ themes mailing list themes@drupal.org http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes
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Is this the page?
This will work OK as long as you don't require your HTML to be well formed, don't mind glitches with things like lists and tables, and don't particularly care if content isn't visually balanced.
Having text flowed between boxes would be a real boon to designers. If someone were to come up with a classy AJAX solution, it would be most excellent.
Djun
On 22-Jan-2006, at 8:36 PM, Laura Scott wrote:
Dub posted a snippet to split a node display over two equal columns. Sorry I don't have a link....Look in the php snippets or theme snippets.
Laura
If only we could get web layouts to work like Quark! ;)
puregin wrote:
Is this the page?
This will work OK as long as you don't require your HTML to be well formed, don't mind glitches with things like lists and tables, and don't particularly care if content isn't visually balanced.
Having text flowed betweenboxes would be a real boon to designers. If someone were to come up with a classy AJAX solution, it would be most excellent.
DjunOn 22-Jan-2006, at 8:36 PM, Laura Scott wrote:
Dub posted a snippet to split a node display over two equal columns. Sorry I don't have a link....Look in the php snippets or theme snippets.
Laura
themes mailing list themes@drupal.org http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes
It shouldn't be too difficult to add another column to the center. However, getting text to flow from one column to the next seems hard.
You'd have to split the HTML by rendered height if you want two balanced columns; otherwise, you'll need to split after one column has been filled and spill the remaining text into the next column. This is awkward since if you do it on the server you won't know about things like actual column width, height, and font size, whereas if you do it on the browser you'll have to deal with Javascript :)
Djun
On 22-Jan-2006, at 6:31 PM, Jeremy Weiss wrote:
Greetings and salutations to all,
I've been looking around to see if anyone had attempted a four column theme before I spend countless hours attempting it. I searched the list archives but didn't find anything. What I'm wanting is the left and right side bars and then for the articles to wrap into columns similar to that of a newspaper. Possible? Feasible?
-jeremy _______________________________________________ themes mailing list themes@drupal.org http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes
-- Djun M. Kim, President djun.kim [at] cielosystems [dot] com Cielo Systems Inc. Strategic Software Research http:// www.cielosystems.com 164 - 4438 18th Avenue West Tel: (778) 895-1379 Vancouver, BC Skype: djun.kim Canada, V6R 4R8
On Sunday 22 January 2006 20:31, Jeremy Weiss wrote:
Greetings and salutations to all,
I've been looking around to see if anyone had attempted a four column theme before I spend countless hours attempting it. I searched the list archives but didn't find anything. What I'm wanting is the left and right side bars and then for the articles to wrap into columns similar to that of a newspaper. Possible? Feasible?
CSS 3 has/will-have a multi-column directive. Firefox 1.5 supports it now. Of course, nothing else does, but that would be the "right" way to do it, eventually. :-)
For now, it's a hard task. See other replies.
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