Re: hosers-talk: web crap

[Josh <kortbein@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel Uckelman sez:
>Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
>> What is the magic acronym I need to research in order to give a website a 
>> global template (header, side bar, footer, etc.) and have it defined in 
>> only one place (as opposed to every page in the site)?
>> 
>> Does CSS do the job, or does it only do text stuff?
>> 
>> I just need a point in the right direction.
>
>It's more complicated than that. CSS lets you alter the display properties of 
>elements, but doesn't cause elements to be displayed. If you want a uniform he
>ader, define a div.header in your stylesheet for it, and put all the crap that
> goes in your header at the top of every page.
>
>Maybe there is some better way, but I don't know what it is.

This is what I was going to reply with but I was too lazy.

Joel, did you upgrade lynx with your recent RH upgrade? I swear
ctrl-z stopped backgrounding lynx for me.


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