[kde-doc-english] Khelpcenter stylesheet issues

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Sonntag, 28. August 2011, 03:18:52 schrieb Michael Pyne:
> On Thursday, August 25, 2011 16:17:04 Burkhard Lück wrote:
> > cc'ing Michael Pyne, afaik he was the last touching the stylesheets
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2011, 23:17:44 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth:
> > > Burkhard Lück wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > 1) today I notices that the margins for a glossary in a documentation
> > > > are
> > > > wrong compared to the section pages.
> > > > A good example for that is KNode. View the glossary page and you'll
> > > > see what I mean.
> > > > So I played a bit with the attached kde-default.css to make it
> > > > better. To be honest I have no clue about css, but for me the
> > > > glossary in knode looks better with the attched kde-default.css.
> > > > To proof that yourself just copy kde-default.css to your
> > > > share/doc/HTML/en/common/kde-default.css and try it with the knode
> > > > glossary.
> > > 
> > > Looks good to me.
> 
> Sorry about the delay, I've had only limited Internet connectivity due to
> being in the middle of a move.
> 
> > > > 3) from my pov the distance between the last line of text and the top
> > > > of the footer is too much, anybody knows how to make that smaller?
> > > 
> > > Change padding-bottom under contentBody in kde-doc.css.  1em looks
> > > decent to me, whereas now it's at 8.9!
> 
> IIRC the amount of padding was in order to ensure that the footer appears
> at the *bottom* of very short pages. It should be compensated for by a
> corresponding negative padding-bottom (or some other CSS hack) elsewhere.
> 
Yes, that makes sense and explains this for me until now "strange" padding-
bottom value.

But we have roughly only 10-20% short pages, where this amount of padding is 
usefull.

> Adjusting the difference between that negative padding and the large
> padding should change the amount of space between the last line of text
> and the footer on large pages, just please make sure it still pushes the
> footer to the bottom for very short pages on reasonable screen heights.
> 
I hardly understand what you are talking about, my css skills are near to 
zero...
Any taker for this job?

> I won't be able to review any patch unfortunately, probably not until
> middle of next week but I hope this has helped.
> 

Thanks for the explanation Michael.

-- 
Burkhard Lück