#64 HTML output contains style information

[Arjan Molenaar]

Hi,

I noted the HTML output contains style information in several places (Epydoc 3.0beta1). E.g. bgcolor, vlink, alink and width tags.

IMHO this information should be placed in the CSS file, which is easy, as each element also has an associated class.

[Edward Loper]

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This probably reflects the history of the code more than anything else -- when epydoc was written, css wasn't widely supported, so we had to make sure things would look good even if css was turned off. That's not so much of a problem now.

Patches for this are welcome (preferably patched against svn).

[Arjan Molenaar]

remove style info from html template and put everything in css

[Arjan Molenaar]

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Hi,

As you wished: here's a patch that removes the style information out of the html file. I checked to see if everything is placed in the css correctly (so it seems).

I had to add a hack to the _COLOR_RE expression, since it handles id's as colors :(.

While on the subject: I see a lot of tables being used. I already removed one (breadcrumbs), but most tabular data could be replaced by divs and some proper css. Are there any thoughts on this subject?

File Added: epydoc-no-embedded-styles.patch

[Björn Lindqvist]

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I like your patch alot. I also would really love to see more divs and less tables in epydoc to make it easier to customize the layout.

[Arjan Molenaar]

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More divs and less tables would be the next step indeed.