#709 Use of CSS in entry preview

[Anonymous]

It would be great to be able to use a bit of advanced formatting in the entry preview.

I'm writing books and articles reviews in some wiki syntax, and then wrote a LayoutFormatter to transform it into HTML. Up until that point, everything is perfect. Now, when I would like to add some CSS to make the reading experience more friendly (and also to add some features like margin notes, or unfolding text), I see that the preview supports only some basic formatting feature.

Is it something that could evolve ?

Thanks

[Olivier Keshavjee]

I've seen that the CSS support by default is quite limited, for example, no width, height, display, float, border, … (cf. http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/index.html\)

I guess it would require to use an alternative render, such as :
* http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer/
or
* http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns/
(both of them LGPL)

Maybe it's not worth the coding ? But I would love that feature :) (imagine all the beautiful layoutformatter we could have, and nice entry preview !)