[Yanel-dev] design restrictions caused by the toolbar

[Michael Wechner]

simon litwan wrote:

> hi all
>
> i noticed that with our current toolbar implementation one will have 
> problems to use a design with absolute positioned elements.
>
> this is caused by the div#yaneltoolbar_middlewrap which allows the 
> toolbar stays at the top and the body is scrollable and also moves 
> down the whole body by the height of the toolbar to avoid hiding 
> content of the body by the toolbar.
>
> this is actually nice in many cases, but not always. if one has a 
> design which has some elements with position:absolute; they won't be 
> controlled by this feature, they will not scroll and even worse 
> overlap with the toolbar.


yes, it's very important that Yanel does not set any restrictions on a 
custom design

>
> i think we should refactor it and allow overwriting of the toolbar 
> insertion (adding the divs, adding the css, adding the menu structure) 
> per realm. at the moment just the menu structure can be overwritten 
> per realm.


agreed

I think for such a refactoring we should also insert a transformer such 
that we don't get conflicts with custom CSS and one can always change it 
something alternative.

>
> WDOT?


Do you want to make a concrete proposal?

I think we should first start with the documentation

http://yanel.wyona.org/en/documentation/yanel-toolbar.html

Cheers

Michi

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