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History: Bootstrap Themes Transition

Preview of version: 13

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This page documents Bootstrap classes transition targeted for Tiki 13 and onwards to help Tiki themers and designers.

 WIP
Work in progress... jump in if you are interested but first read this page

 quick bootstrap testing
If you want to test quickly (trunk for Tiki12):

1) download bootstrap files (http://getbootstrap.com/), copy bootstrap.css to your /styles folder
2) create a bootstrap folder in the /styles folder
3) copy to /styles/bootstrap the downloaded boostrap.js file and rename it to custom.js
4) in the admin panel switch your theme to bootstrap

5) If you want an "alternative tiki.tpl" to replace or add divs with bootstrap-compatible classes (for responsive layout, etc.), try using the new "Site layout" feature (follow the example of templates/layouts/classic).

[+] CSS selectors (class vs id)

Overview of the main elements classes changes

Buttons

How to approach and handle buttons

 bootstrap buttons
1) read the Buttons section @ http://getbootstrap.com/css/ 2) they say: "As a best practice, we highly recommend using the button> element whenever possible to ensure matching cross-browser rendering." - How does this effect Tiki?

 jquery buttons

1.1.1.1. when should an element be a button

1.1.1.2. the default classes for a Tiki button

What are the default classes?

1.1.1.3. how to manage externals (eg: jquery dialogs)

External sources come with their own styling. How is this neutralized and turned into Tiki styling?

1.1.1.4. how to customize (write down how to do it)

eg: I dont like that the edit page save button class is btn-primary, I want it to look like btn-warning, how do I do that in my css file without modifying any other source files

[-] lib/

[-] smarty_tiki/

[-] function.button.php

btn class added;

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<span class="button" ...>

renders now in mobile mode as

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<span class="btn button" ...>

otherwise

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<a class="btn" data-role="button" ...>

Overview of grid layout issues, etc.

These changes will be made in templates/layouts/bs_grid (or some name indicating Bootstrap grid compatibility. At issue is where to add class="row" container divs.

In parallel with this, presumably the idea of moving everything in the center column to modules will happen. This will simplify the template and give a lot of flexibility to page layout as well.

Overall page

This includes the top module zone, topbar module zone, side columns, center content (less div#role_main, which should be addressed separately), page bottom module zone (bottom of center column), and footer (bottom module zone).

Page center content (div#role_main)

History

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Mon 13 of Jun, 2016 05:11 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee URL corrected to fix 404 error. Other edits for clarity. 43
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Mon 09 of Dec, 2013 09:45 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 42
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Sun 08 of Dec, 2013 01:39 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Updated information. 41
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Sun 08 of Dec, 2013 01:37 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Rearranged some content to try to focus more on current state of progress. 40
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Sun 08 of Dec, 2013 01:32 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Hiding more discussion as it isn't central to Bootstrap process. 39
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Sun 08 of Dec, 2013 01:31 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Updated the information. 38
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Sun 08 of Dec, 2013 01:28 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Updated the information. 37
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Fri 29 of Nov, 2013 07:45 GMT-0000 gezza button notes 36
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Wed 27 of Nov, 2013 09:17 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 35
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Tue 05 of Nov, 2013 02:13 GMT-0000 Torsten Fabricius just re-save to trigger alias link 34
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Tue 05 of Nov, 2013 02:12 GMT-0000 Torsten Fabricius ML asked to rename for the purpose of SEO optimisation 33
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Tue 29 of Oct, 2013 02:14 GMT-0000 Torsten Fabricius added comment and sign 32
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Tue 29 of Oct, 2013 02:13 GMT-0000 Torsten Fabricius 31
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Tue 29 of Oct, 2013 01:09 GMT-0000 Torsten Fabricius 30
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Tue 29 of Oct, 2013 00:58 GMT-0000 Torsten Fabricius 29
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Tue 29 of Oct, 2013 00:56 GMT-0000 Torsten Fabricius added comment 28
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Mon 30 of Sep, 2013 15:07 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Note about updating button classes. 27
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Mon 30 of Sep, 2013 14:59 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Misc. additions. 26
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Sat 28 of Sep, 2013 07:52 GMT-0000 gezza 25
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Sat 28 of Sep, 2013 07:51 GMT-0000 gezza 24
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Thu 26 of Sep, 2013 07:58 GMT-0000 gezza 23
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Mon 26 of Aug, 2013 18:52 GMT-0000 gezza more thoughts on grid layout 22
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Mon 26 of Aug, 2013 17:04 GMT-0000 gezza starter layout for brainstorming 21
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Thu 22 of Aug, 2013 14:56 GMT-0000 gezza view layout thoughts 20
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Thu 22 of Aug, 2013 14:21 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Ideas about layout options 19
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Thu 22 of Aug, 2013 11:59 GMT-0000 gezza 18
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Wed 21 of Aug, 2013 13:18 GMT-0000 gezza more button thougths 17
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Wed 21 of Aug, 2013 10:33 GMT-0000 gezza 16
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Wed 14 of Aug, 2013 10:41 GMT-0000 gezza some thoughts on external sources and buttons 15
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Wed 14 of Aug, 2013 10:19 GMT-0000 gezza 14
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Tue 13 of Aug, 2013 08:55 GMT-0000 gezza 13
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Fri 09 of Aug, 2013 05:08 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee New template ideas to support Bootstrap's grid 12
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Thu 01 of Aug, 2013 15:11 GMT-0000 gezza 11
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Wed 31 of Jul, 2013 13:13 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Minor edit. 10
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Wed 31 of Jul, 2013 13:12 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Comment about ids vs classes, and site layout suggestion. 9
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Wed 31 of Jul, 2013 09:34 GMT-0000 gezza 8
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Wed 31 of Jul, 2013 09:02 GMT-0000 gezza 7
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Tue 30 of Jul, 2013 08:17 GMT-0000 gezza 6
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Fri 19 of Jul, 2013 13:37 GMT-0000 gezza 5
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Sun 21 of Apr, 2013 21:44 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 4
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Sun 21 of Apr, 2013 21:41 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ Code Plugin modified by editor. 3
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Sun 21 of Apr, 2013 21:19 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 2
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Sat 20 of Apr, 2013 21:36 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 1
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