On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 06:23 -0500, Thomas Jones wrote: > Has anyone here noticed that the css declarations removes the > capabilities of various docbook elements? > > For instance, I have some data that I have put into a table. I followed > all semantics of the CALS table attributes that docbook utilizes. Yet, I > am unable to successfully alter the table attributes and their > appropriate values to achieve the desired outcome --- because of html > attribute inclusion by css. > > i.e. > > <table id="entities" frame="all"><title>Demonstration Entities and > Relationships</title> > <tgroup cols="3" align="left" colsep="0" rowsep="0"> > <thead> > ... > > Now this should result in the following: > > A framed table with three columns, all aligned to the left, and all rows > and columns NOT seperated. > > But instead I get a framed table with a header background color of > #a9a9a9, a body background color of #dcdcdc, all aligned to the left, > and all rows and columns ARE seperated. > > To do this, i should have declared so using the bgcolor and border > attributes. This breaks the element. I'll be the first to say that I am not a genius about DocBook interactions with XSL and CSS. But I thought that it's generally not a good idea to declare things like color and other presentation details in the DocBook source, since those are expected to be transformed into a common style outside the DocBook source, such as through CSS. The result of the source should be a presentation that is consistent throughout a project. In other words, the project doesn't really benefit from me making chartreuse and magenta tables, since it doesn't give that "Fedora look" (whatever that might be). Therefore we have CSS that makes the HTML look the way we think it should, across the board. Anyway, this is how I understood things, but again, I pretty much just scribble and wield a red pen here. Am I way off base here, or is it just that we have failed to cover guidelines on using some of this DocBook markup? -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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