Re: [docbook-apps] static table of contents

[Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech dot com>]

Using CSS:
div.toc {
float: left;
width: 20%;
position: fixed;
}

div.book div.chapter {
margin-left: 20%;
}

I believe that should work for any browser EXCEPT MS IE, because IE 
doesn't support position: fixed (even though it's been part of CSS for 7 
years).  Fixed sections in IE require some complicated div-sizing that 
is easy to break. :-(

Which then leaves frames as your other option.  Bob's book has a good 
description of how to use frames with chunk.xsl.  To do it with one 
chunk, I think you'd have to do two passes, one suppressing the TOC and 
one suppressing everything else, to create the index file on the left 
and the content page on the right.

Tristan Fiedler wrote:
> I am creating an html page from DocBook using "onechunk"
>
> I would like the table of contents to be located in a left hand section 
> of the page which does not move as the reader progresses through the 
> document.
>
> Can this be accomplished with either xsl or css?
>
> Cheers,        Tristan
> ---
> Tristan J. Fiedler
> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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