The "new" datatracker uses Twitter Bootstrap for the UI.
Get familiar with http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/ and use those
UI elements instead of cooking up your own.
We have some site-wide customization applied to the bootstrap version we keep
in bootstrap/ (from which the minified dist version is built); it modifies
some stuff under less/
We also apply some additional custiomizations in static/css/ietf.css; we
should eventually move that under bootstrap/less/ if possible. (ietf.css was
what Lars used initially for customization with an unmodified bootstrap.)
Some ground rules:
* Think hard before tweaking the bootstrap CSS, it will make it harder to
upgrade to future releases.
* No <style> tags in the HTML! Put CSS into the "morecss" block of a
template instead.
* CSS that is used by multiple templates goes into static/css/ietf.css.
* Javascript that is only used on one template goes into the "js" block of
that template.
* Javascript that is used by multiple templates goes into static/js/ietf.js.
* Every template includes jquery, so write jquery code and not plain Javascript.
It's shorter and often faster.
* No CSS, HTML styling or Javascript in the python code!
* Templates that use jquery or bootstrap plugins include the css file in the
"pagehead" block, and the Javascript in the "js" block.
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