[Xerte-dev] Re: Model specific css of Nottingham template

[Smith, John]

When Fay and I initially changed the models into a more object oriented format I had the idea to have the css and html containers all js based and created as the result of calling a method of the page model object. That way you could load the css into the head (or anywhere) and you you could load the containers into any other container. This would give the possibility of loading all the page models on the fly when the learning object loads and also allow for example a "page preview" popup box to be loaded in the editor. You'd pass additional parameters to these functions to determine how the html/css is built and where it would be loaded to...

So you'd just have a couple of methods like

buildCSS ( .... ) { ..... }

buildContainer ( ..... ) { ....... }

The CSS/HTML would either just be written out as strings or built on the fly using jQuery constructors and then send on to the next stage. Either way it would be customisable....

It would be a lot of work but it would give the most flexibility, including being able to render multiple LO pages in a single html page which is what we need for printing etc.... Once xenith and a single page model was working though it would be relatively easy to convert the rest.

Regards,

John Smith
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Model specific css of Nottingham template

Seems a good idea to me: if we were doing it from scratch, how would we have implemented it? With specific model ids?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 16 May 2016 20:06
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Model specific css of Nottingham template


Option 2 is an interesting one! I can do that quickly....

Thank you!

Op 16-5-2016 om 20:46 schreef Pat L (pgogy):
Place one model specific id at a higher level?
Or change body class on page turn?


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From: Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl><mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>
Date: 16/05/2016 19:25 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Model specific css of Nottingham template

Hi All,

When we discussed H5P on the development day in April, we discussed that it might be a good idea to look at the aesthetics of all the models again and see if we can improve them.

One of the experiments I did, was to extract all the model specific css in a separate file, and include that file in the rloObject.htm and delete the inline styles from the model.

 1.  It make it possible to override model specific css
 2.  It make it possible to override model specific css in the themes

Regrettable, that doesn't work, because the models do not use independent html id's and classes.

What I would like to propose is to:

 1.  Make sure all the id's and classes used in a model file are unique for that model (by prefixing?)
 2.  Extract the inline css from the model files in a central file

Just to be able to override css in a LO specific custom stylesheet and in a theme.

Any objections and/or other suggestions?

Tom

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