Re: navigation menu for documents

On Wednesday 15 July 2009 02:27:32 Richard Huxton wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Richard Huxton wrote:
> >> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>> Yes, really. What you suggest here is just not adequate, IMNSHO. I
> >>> don't want to have to scroll to the top or bottom of the page to get
> >>> navigation, and I want to be able to see the navigation and go where
> >>> I want directly.
> >>
> >> Are you talking about the online manuals, or something else here?
> >
> > I don't care if we don't provide this for the online manuals on
> > postgresql.org - I'm quite happy to install it on my own server if
> > necessary. But I am talking about the HTML docs that come from our /doc
> > directory. And I bet if we had the option of better navigation, our
> > online users would want us to provide it.
>
> Shouldn't be too hard to come up with something reasonable with a little
> css. Something only activated if javascript is turned on or some such.
> Give me 48 hours and I'll have a play.

You just have to generate the full ToC on every HTML page and then use the 
right CSS to make it float where you want it.  I suspect that that method 
might make the build very slow, though.