Re: styling the subnavigation tree

Andrew,

For the record, I am replying from the design list. ;) Come join the 
party, plone-users!

You are right that portlet_navigation is heinous, and among its crimes 
is indeed the mixing of content and presentation. I have styled it more 
or less successfully with CSS (on, e.g., www.crossroadsdg.com), and now 
that I think of it, you could even hide the images in CSS as well 
(although I haven't done that yet).

As for your questions ...

 > 1) So, my first question would be ... what's the best guess time frame
 > for when this portlet is updated to be more Plone 2.0/CSS friendly?
 > Final release of v2.0?

When you and I get pissed enough to re-write it. ;)  Prolly not 2.0 
final unless we hurry!


 > 2) In the meantime, would others recommend customizing the portlet
 > script by stripping out the img, styling, and spacing and then
 > replacing it with a nice CSS defined style/div?

At that point you're approaching the solution to #1, although I think 
you want it to be a list.


 > 3) And finally, will this approach upgrade gracefully?

If you submit your changes and they *become* the upgrade, then yes. ;) 
Otherwise, I would guess it depends on how much configuration you do in 
portal_properties/navigation_tree_properties and whether that system 
survives the upgrade (unlikely? dunno.).



hth,
chad





Andrew Burkhalter wrote:
> [*I understand that this type of message is supposed to eventually
> migrate over to plone-designs, but am sending to both right now as the
> plone-users is quite a bit more active*]
> 
> 
> I'm looking for advice about an elegant/flexible way to style the
> sub-navigation tree.  The tree is rendered from the file
> "/portal_skins/plone_portlets/portlet_navigation".  Within the script,
> several visual elements are locally controlled including: 
> 
> 	* folder icons (should be background-image in stylesheet)
> 	* link style is totally local (i.e. <a href="" style="padding-
> left:0.5em;display:block">)
> 	* spacing (i.e. &nbsp; should be padding)
> 
> This strategy seems to fly in the face of all the good work Plone has
> done controlling design elements using CSS, which might explain the
> following comment a top the file:
> 
> 	<!-- This code is *really* messed up, and will be replaced in
> the next 	version of Plone. Do not try to make sense of this.
> 	-->
> 
> 1) So, my first question would be ... what's the best guess time frame
> for when this portlet is updated to be more Plone 2.0/CSS friendly?
> Final release of v2.0?
> 
> 2) In the meantime, would others recommend customizing the portlet
> script by  stripping out the img, styling, and spacing and then
> replacing it with a nice CSS defined style/div?      
> 
> 3) And finally, will this approach upgrade gracefully?
>  
> 
> Thanks for the insight!  Andrew
> 
> 
> 
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