Mailing List Archive: Forrest 0.7: "class" attribute not being added to element in generated, static HTML

Forresters,

I have a problem with Forrest 0.7: when I add a "class" attribute to
the <body> element of a source XDocs document-v20 file, this source
document validates successfully, but the generated HTML for the
corresponding page in the static site does not have a "class"
attribute for the <body> element.

1. Is this a known problem?

2. Is there a solution?

I want to apply a CSS rule to all <h2> elements, which correspond to
section titles in the source file, on a single page of my Forrest Web
site.

Here is my CSS rule, which I have added to the <extra-css> section of
my skinconf.xml file:

body.product_heading h2.h3 { clear: both; }

Thanks,
Brolin

PS: Is there any other way to apply my CSS rule only to section
titles/headings on a single page of my site?

Brolin Empey wrote:
> Forresters,
>
> I have a problem with Forrest 0.7: when I add a "class" attribute to
> the <body> element of a source XDocs document-v20 file, this source
> document validates successfully, but the generated HTML for the
> corresponding page in the static site does not have a "class"
> attribute for the <body> element.
>
> 1. Is this a known problem?
>
> 2. Is there a solution?

Yeah i just tried that on a current development SVN 0.9-dev
and the same issue exists.

It is probably a known issue. The Cocoon sitemaps build
up their own "body" for the internal xml stream by aggregating
the content. Any attribute of body is probably ignored.

> I want to apply a CSS rule to all <h2> elements, which correspond to
> section titles in the source file, on a single page of my Forrest Web
> site.
>
> Here is my CSS rule, which I have added to the <extra-css> section of
> my skinconf.xml file:
>
> body.product_heading h2.h3 { clear: both; }
>
> Thanks,
> Brolin
>
> PS: Is there any other way to apply my CSS rule only to section
> titles/headings on a single page of my site?

Yes, but you would need to go to the Forrest dev list for that.
There is some work in whiteboard development in current SVN 0.9-dev
called Dispatcher.

However we cannot recommend users to use work that is in development.
Please join the dev list.

-David