[pmwiki-users] Gemini skin and extendedmarkup (selfreference vs selflink)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:22:05PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> I looked at selflink vs selfreference more closely:
> extendmarkup.php makes $LinkPageSelfFmt into a bold <b>tag,
> which does not go well in gemini skin's sidebar, since all the
> list-items are links and <a>tags and styled as such.

Yes.  But perhaps another workaround is for gemini (or the site) to
use a CSS selector of "li .selfreference" in addition to "li a".
Or even "li b.selfreference".  This ought to catch+style the 
<b class='selfreference'> items also.

>   # changes to extended markup:
>   $LinkPageSelfFmt = "<a class='selflink'>\$LinkText</a>";
>   $HTMLStylesFmt[] = "
>   a.selflink { color:#000; text-decoration:none  }
>   #sidebar a:hover.selflink {background:none; color:#000}
>   ";

Yup, this should work.

> Question about this:
> Perhaps
>   $LinkPageSelfFmt = "<a class='selflink'>\$LinkText</a>";
> has an advantage over
>   $LinkPageSelfFmt = "<a class='selflink' href='\$LinkUrl'>\$LinkText</a>";
> or are there any problems with this?

I don't see any problems with it.