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Re: Web page margins

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0200, Jan Holler wrote:
> 
> On 09-Jul-01 Alvise Belotti wrote:
> > If you prefer setting this margin to 0, you have tu put 
> > something like MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0
> > inside <body> (NS and IE behaves differently in this respect, obviously :-).
> > The problem lies in that if you put that instructions inside <page> they are
> > silently discarded.
> 
> I patched info.wml (wml 1.74):
> 
> In the fist part you could add:
> 
>      <preserve marginwidth>
>      <preserve marginheight>
> 
> Inside <body ....> you add:
> 
>      <if <get-var marginwidth> " marginwidth=\"<get-var marginwidth>\" \
>       leftmargin=\"<get-var marginwidth>\"" "leftmargin=\"8\"">\
>      <if <get-var marginheight> " marginheight=\"<get-var marginheight>\" \
>       topmargin=\"<get-var marginheight>\ "" " topmargin=\"8\"">\
> 
> Near the end you should add, when preserved before.
> 
>      <restore marginheight>
>      <restore marginwidth>
> 
> I have put an 8 pixel default margin for Explorer so that it displays
> the same margins as Netscape if not set by the user.

Hi,

no attributes should be added by default since this breaks HTML
standards compliance.

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Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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