X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/09b0a3b73f7c9ca873c3e20a64b124c0749b3d3b..afa930a9c4ada59ea840d626f583f8b4fb3c3f20:/doc/todo/CSS_classes_for_links.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/CSS_classes_for_links.mdwn b/doc/todo/CSS_classes_for_links.mdwn index ad4813eb2..38db87724 100644 --- a/doc/todo/CSS_classes_for_links.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/CSS_classes_for_links.mdwn @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ My best regards, >>> I also think this should be in an external plugin, not in ikiwiki. >>> +I find CSS3 support still spotty... Here are some notes on how to do this in IkiWiki with jQuery: --[[sabr]] + > If you need to achieve this in IkiWiki itself, I imagine you could create a > plugin which runs in the `format` phase of rendering and search/replaces > specific link patterns. This should be a fairly simple exercise in regular @@ -70,6 +72,32 @@ My best regards, > controls a link is when an internal link is added using a WikiLink. > > (Note that tags get their own special -> [[rel_attribute|rel_attribute_for_link]] now that CSS can use.) +> [[rel_attribute|rel_attribute_for_links]] now that CSS can use.) > > --[[Joey]] + +>> I had a little look at this, last weekend. I added a class definition to +>> the `htmllink` call in `linkify` in `link.pm`. It works pretty well, but +>> I'd also need to adjust other `htmllink` calls (map, inline, etc.). I found +>> other methods (CSS3 selectors, etc.) to be unreliable. +>> +>> Would you potentially accept a patch that added `class="internal"` to +>> various `htmllink` calls in ikiwiki? +>> +>> How configurable do you think this behaviour should be? I'm considering a +>> config switch to enable or disable this behaviour, or possibly a +>> configurable list of class names to append for internal links (defaulting +>> to an empty list for backwards compatibility)> +>> +>> As an alternative to patching the uses of `htmllink`, what do you think +>> about patching `htmllink` itself? Are there circumstances where it might be +>> used to generate a non-internal link? -- [[Jon]] + +>>> I think that the minimum configurability to get something that +>>> can be used by CSS to style the links however the end user wants +>>> is the best thing to shoot for. Ideally, no configurability. And +>>> a tip or something documenting how to use the classes in your CSS +>>> to style links so that eg, external links have a warning icon. +>>> +>>> `htmllink` can never be used to generate an external link. So, +>>> patching it seems the best approach. --[[Joey]]