Should we have any mandatory stuctural elements in skins?

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My initial thought was - mark up all pure content elements with some naming convention. For example ab_q_title would be class name for question title, or ab_query_id id of search query input element. Postfix _id would make id's distinct from classes.

The question is - should we also have some mandatory structural blocks? I.e. container types that would group elements like question title, question toolbar (with delete, edit, etc. links), etc.

Originally I though that we shouldn't because structure items like that enforce layout which will make building alternative layouts harder.

What do you think?

Yes, wrappers would be a great thing! I've already come across a few bumps while customizing the default template where a wrapper DIV would have come in very handy.

I think it's possible to make those wrappers "layout neutral" - if necessary, by forcing a "display: inline" on them while customizing. It will require changing two classes instead of just one in case of deeper customizations, but that is an okay price to pay IMO.

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Pekka

updated 2010-05-07 02:57:15 -0600, answered 2010-05-07 02:36:45 -0600

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we can probably re-use them too. I don't think you can make any container layout neutral though, without some absolute positioning tricks. For example a layout for mobile device version will probably very different - e.g. all the little links will be best taken outside into a separate toolbox.

Evgeny (2010-05-07 11:15:16 -0600) edit

@Pekka, maybe we should add a separate marker class for container? or it will be overkill?

Evgeny (2010-05-07 11:19:36 -0600) edit

@Evgeny can you specify what you mean by the separate marker class? You mean a specific class that is applied to all containers?

Pekka (2010-05-07 11:58:51 -0600) edit

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