Re: html macro library

Hello Kevin,

Kevin Bolton wrote:
> I'll take the short answer, in so far as you know, to be: "No.  There
> are no macro libraries for HTML code".  Thanks much for your answer.
>
> In response to your other questions/points....
>
> I am trying to avoid writing html by hand.  I don't care to remember (or
> use some reference manual) html syntax.  Additionally, it's the
> inconsistencies I'd inevitably introduce into the HTML hand coding those
> tags I'm trying to avoid.  By using a macro library, all of my html
> would be correct every time.  I would get the additional validation from
> Velocity since Velocity would complain if I call a macro that doesn't
> exist or call one with the wrong number of arguments.  

You should seriously investigate learning and using CSS for layout and 
overall look and feel of your pages.  This will greatly simplify the 
HTML that you do write and reduce the need to create macros in Velocity.

For a typical page that has a heading, left navigation and footer, the 
old way used tables and can get complicated with all the nesting.  The 
new way uses CSS for layout.  You just specify each section with a <div> 
tag and specify the appropriate CSS to position and style the way you want.

Some links:
  http://glish.com/css/
  http://www.mako4css.com/
  http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
  CSS in forms:
    http://www.webweaver.org/dan/css/cssforms.html

-Bill