Re: HTML <div style="width:40%">

Thank you Günter and David. It makes sense that rST does not support 
direct styling — this is what stylesheets are for.

I'll explain the background of my question: Pandoc can generate beamer 
slides. For slides, it is also possible to generate columns and specify 
the width in Pandoc's Markdown as follows [1]:

:::::::::::::: {.columns}
::: {.column width="40%"}
contents...
:::
::: {.column width="60%"}
contents...
:::
::::::::::::::

This block generates the following HTML:

<div class="columns">
   <div class="column" style="width:40%;">
     <p>contents…</p>
   </div>
   <div class="column" style="width:60%;">
     <p>contents…</p>
   </div>
</div>

I wanted to do the same with rST. As you have suggested I tried with 
container:: and class:: directives, which could generate a beamer slide 
with columns in pandoc:

.. class:: columns

    .. class:: column

       - first

    .. class:: column

       - second

Note that also container:: directive can be used in the preceding 
example. I could not figure out how to create the style attribute when 
using rST as input in Pandoc. Although Pandoc accepts CSS for 
HTML/CSS-to-pdf output, it does not support CSS input along with rST I 
suppose. I will create a request for that.

Gökçe

[1] https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#columns


Am 2017-11-22 22:43, schrieb David Goodger:
> Yes, it's possible. But not recommended. Directly, the only way is
> with the "raw" directive:
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#raw-data-pass-through
> But that is a last resort only. I do NOT recommend it.
> 
> What you're talking about is styling your HTML. You should use
> stylesheets for that:
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/howto/html-stylesheets.html
> 
> Use the "class" directive (or "class" option on an existing directive)
> to assign custom classes if necessary:
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#class
> 
> What, in your document, are you trying to style?
> 
> David Goodger
> <http://python.net/~goodger>
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Gökçe Aydos
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is it possible to generate HTML output as follows?
>> 
>> <div style="width:40%">
>> contents...
>> </div>
>> 
>> Regards, Gökçe
>> 
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