{"id":163,"date":"2005-04-21T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2005\/04\/21\/bookmarkshtml-is-busted\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T02:51:31","slug":"bookmarkshtml-is-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/bookmarkshtml-is-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"bookmarks.html is busted"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bookmarks file generated by Mozilla is busted. The other day, I tried to create an XHTML file to turn my bookmarks file into a CSS-powered cascading menu, but I ran into a problem: since bookmarks.html doesn't have closing tags for many of its elements, I couldn't get the CSS styles applied as desired. Mozilla--please convert your bookmarks file to XHTML to enable this kind of thing.<\/p>\n

Here's what my XHTML file loked like (yeah, I know, I'm missing the XML delcaration and DOCTYPE):<\/p>\n

<html>
\n<head>
\n <title>Antone's Bookmarks<\/title>
\n <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"bookmarks.css\" \/>
\n<\/head>
\n<body><\/p>\n

<object
\n data=\"file:\/\/\/asdf\/Mozilla\/Profiles\/qwerty\/foobar\/bookmarks.html\"
\n type=\"text\/html\"
\n style=\"height:400px;width:100%;\">
\n<\/object><\/p>\n

<\/body>
\n<\/html><\/code><\/p>\n

The whole purpose of this file is to apply a stylesheet to bookmarks.html. Thus, it links to a stylesheet, and uses the \"object\" element to import my bookmarks file.<\/p>\n

Here's my bookmarks.css file:<\/p>\n

body {
\n background:#fff;
\n}<\/p>\n

dl {
\n display:block;
\n margin:0;
\n padding:0;
\n list-style:none;
\n width:150px;
\n border-bottom:1px solid #03c;
\n position:absolute;
\n left:0px;
\n top:19px;
\n font-weight:normal;
\n text-align:left;
\n}<\/p>\n

dl dl { display:none; }<\/p>\n

dl dl {
\n left:149px;
\n top:0;
\n}<\/p>\n

dl dt { position:relative; }<\/p>\n

a {
\n display:block;
\n text-decoration:none;
\n color:#fff;
\n background:#03c;
\n padding:3px 5px;
\n border:1px solid #03c;
\n border-bottom:0;
\n}<\/p>\n

a:hover {
\n color:#039;
\n background:#eee;
\n text-align:left;
\n}<\/p>\n

dl:hover>p>dl { display:block; }
\ndl:hover { text-align:left; }<\/p>\n

dd {
\n display:none;
\n}<\/code><\/p>\n

I'm not sure whether this is exactly how it should look--since it didn't work, I couldn't test it. But it's adapted from a stylesheet that converts unordered lists into cascading menus, so it's certainly close.<\/p>\n

Oh well, maybe someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bookmarks file generated by Mozilla is busted. The other day, I tried to create an XHTML file to turn my bookmarks file into a CSS-powered cascading menu, but I ran into a problem: since bookmarks.html doesn't have closing tags for many of its elements, I couldn't get the CSS styles applied as desired. Mozilla--please...
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