[kde-doc-english] Khelpcenter stylesheet issues

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2011, 20:50:24 schrieb Michael Pyne:
> On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 19:27:55 Burkhard Lück wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 28. August 2011, 03:18:52 schrieb Michael Pyne:
> > > On Thursday, August 25, 2011 16:17:04 Burkhard Lück wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> 
> The padding is not supposed to affect the normal length pages. I'll explain
> by answering your next point.
> 
> > > 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...
> 
> CSS uses a "box model" to layout elements, with many (if not all) of the
> attributes of that box modifiable in CSS. If you don't specify any of those
> attributes then they simply end up getting laid out generally from top to
> bottom, as close together as possible.
> 
> I had thought in my email last week that I had forced the footer to the
> bottom by using an artificially-large content area on top of the footer,
> and then used negative CSS margins to collapse some of that extra area to
> avoid showing scrollbars. Looking at the kde-docs.css closer I don't see
> any negative margins or padding though (although there is still the large
> padding mentioned previously). I think I will have to look at this closer.
> 
Your responsiveness is really appreciated by me.

Thanks  Michael

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Burkhard Lück