Listology Formatting Woes
Let it not be said that I don't own up to my mistakes. For awhile now the way Listology has formatted lists, guessed where to put in line breaks, etc. has been screwy. It still is screwy, but today it became slightly less screwy. Unfortunately, this will almost certainly mess up the formatting of some lists that had previously accounted for the screwiness that is no longer there. Take this list by stooky for example. He'd probably like a little more white space above each of his headers. If you notice stuff like this in your own lists, and want me to take a crack at making a speedy bulk fix, let me know. No promises, but I'll do what i can.
UPDATE: Don't go changing anything wholesale yet. Looks like I may have to put this back the way it was. If you are having problems with any of your lists, post specifics below.
Arggggggggggggggggggg! >:?\
Okay now that I've vented I'm wondering about an earlier post you made about CSS. You've told me to integrate the "style" into the comment section and that will relay to the main section of the list.
I have 2 questions:
Silly question 1:
If I put my style headings and do my coding and turn it off, I don't have to put any extra junk in there to operate the style header.
Silly question 2:
is there a way to connect to a CSS set up on my website through the comment box.
Feel free to chuckle, but I needs the control.
T'ho
:?)
Regarding "Arggggggggggggggggggg!" ...
I assume that was in reference to the whitespace (or lack thereof) above the headers in the lists of yours I referenced? As noted, I might be able to fix that for you en masse, and rather quickly. Just let me know the problem, and how you want it addressed, and I'll see what I can do.
Don't worry about it...I've got the zen like power...css is working like a charm. Yipee!
Obviously any changes to the standard formatting of your pages would have to come with the J stamp of approval. But I can navigate around any problems by setting standards of my own inside the page itself. I'll actually send you an e-mail about what I was planning and you can tell me off or something.
:?)
Cool, I look forward to hearing your plans!
I may put this back the way it was if I can't get it working the way you want. More to follow on that later. As for your other questions:
Question #1: I don't follow you.
Question #2: Something like this might work:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.stooky.com/listology.css" type="text/css" />
Give it a whirl, let me know.
Giving whirl later tonight...puff puff...thanks.
signed: running stook.
jim, I hate to be a grouser, but the way that the list numbers don't skip underscored items anymore hurts...a lot.
My issues with the new style of skippage are two:
1. There's no longer an obvious way to put in leader comments that won't shank the counting (where 1 is now 2 in almost all of my numbered lists).
2. Any of my numbered lists with multiple divisions are basically useless now, unless I go back and add underscores and hand-number them.
Is there anyway we could define a style that would not be counted as an item? Or is that already possible and I'm just ignorant?
Anyway, all the stuff you do for listology is great (flatten comments is awesome) and I have no real right to bitch. If you (or anyone else!) have any ideas on either issue, I'm all eyes. Thanks.
I'm not quite sure - is THAT what's causing, for example, thislist to skip numbers wherever I typed "_
" - if so, then is it impossible to unnumbered lines now? That would suck...
Oh, and thanks for grousing! There is enough varied content on Listology that any change I make to how lists render will have unintended consequences that I won't notice in at least a few (and sometimes many) lists if they aren't called to my attention.
Okay, hopefully I have a "best of both worlds" fix in place. The HTML is still cleaner (although not quite as clean), the numbering works the way it used to, and managing whitespace should be slightly easier (but perhaps just different). Let me know if that does the trick for you.
Huzzah! Thanks, Jim!
Thanks for your tireless efforts. If I notice things that still seem strange, I'll let you know.
Yay, thank you! (performs happy dance)
I may put this back the way it was if I can't get it working the way you want. More to follow later...
I haven't noticed (not that I would, necessarily) many formatting changes on my list. Are there more formatting things you changed rather than the 'add a blank line when going from a numbered to an unnumbered item' thing (or however that used to work)?
Sorry for that terrible paragraph - I don't really edit my discussion posts at all :-)
There's really no such thing as a "only affects one thing" type of change to this code. ANY change to this code will likely have unintended consequences. That said, no, I did not *intend* any other changes. :-)