[Product-Developers] collective.portlet.explore ragged margin workaround

Raphael Ritz r.ritz at biologie.hu-berlin.de
Mon Aug 1 12:03:06 UTC 2011


On 7/29/11 7:51 PM, ken manheimer wrote:
> i love collective.portlet.explore's functionality, but find the ragged
> right margin of wrapped titles - where the second-line is far tot the
> right of the first - to defeat the readability of the nesting structure.
>   i have a fix, and would be happy to check it in, but the approach is
> dubious, and am looking for better suggestions.

Have you seen
http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/2776

It suggests to use a negative 'text-indent' together with
appropriate 'margin-left' settings.

Not sure this is what you are after but maybe it is ...

Cheers,

	Raphael

>
> the problem is that conventional css approaches to indenting second
> lines fail, because at sufficient nesting depths they cause the
> open/close toggle glyph (the triangle) to be covered by the leading
> line.  i haven't found a way, using just css on the <span> enclosing the
> title, to get around that.
>
> the easy fix is to enclose the title in a
> <table><tr><td>...<table><tr><td>.  actually, i need to use <table
> style="border-spacing: 0px">... to get rid of extraneous spacing imposed
> by user-agent stylesheets.  i'm far from certain this is the best way to
> do it, or even an acceptible one.  for quick and dirty, though, it works
> like a charm.
>
> what's the right way to do this?  (and why do people tolerate the ragged
> right margin, as is?  do people just not use collective.portlet.explore?
>   or always use very short titles?)
>
> i should add that my time for attention to this is extremely limited -
> i'm just trying to make the thing useful, in a centrally maintainable way.
>
> ken manheimer
>
>
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