Getting rid of br-tags?

[heddesheimer]

Hi,

I have a problem creating a style for s9y. I want to make the links in the side bar acting like buttons having all the same width. So I have to declare a style="display:block" for the anchor-tags, so that the links can extend to the right margin.

I found, that this does not work with some elements. One of the problems is, that in include/plugin_internal.inc.php the funktion generate_content() do include br-tags after the links.

Would it be reasonable to replace these and put the tag into a div-container instead? I think it would be more convenient for style-programmers who like to change the styles for the individual links.

It should not be a big problem, I changed it in the file so far, but I would appreciate if it could go into development for the next version.

I am using 0.8.5

Marian

[garvinhicking]

You can also set the "br" tag to "display: none" without needing to touch the PHP files.

Best regards,
Garvin

[heddesheimer]

Great idea. Thanks

I have learned to get my HTML as logical structured als possible. Because br-tags are normally for display purpose and don't add much too the structure, wouldn't you aggree that it's a better goal to get rid of all those br-tags in the long run?

Marian

[heddesheimer]

I jost got a note from my designer, that we will need the links as a HTML-List to make the pages better accessible for blind people. WordPress and other Blog-Scripts already have this as default.

[garvinhicking]

You can change the markup of many plugins from within their PHP code. Some plugins like the linklist or staticpage linklist or "entry's links" already use <li>s for linklists.

Where exactly are you missing <li> in linklists?

Regards,
Garvin

[heddesheimer]

Where exactly are you missing <li> in linklists?

not in linklists but in the main navigation links

[garvinhicking]

What do you mean with main navigation links exactly?

Best regards,
Garvin

[heddesheimer]

What do you mean with main navigation links exactly?

Best regards,
Garvin

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HTH

[garvinhicking]

Ah, okay.

Well, since I get this request from time to time I just took some of my time to make the Categories plugin use the Smarty features.

I committed it to version 0.9-beta2, since it does not work with 0.8 because of the new permission functions and some other new changes to the categories plugin.

If you are not using 0.9 already you can either upgrade, or you need to edit your include/plugin_internal.inc.php file and locate the "serendipity_categories_plugin" code to adapt the HTML code. It is not so hard, so you should easily be able to do it.

And for the future you can use the new plugin in 0.9

Best regards,
Garvin

[heddesheimer]

sounds good.

Thanks

Marian