[opencms-dev] Workplace Translation for OpenCms 8.0.3

[Christian Steinert]

On 15.03.2012 10:57, Sandrine Prousteau wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We are currently translating OpenCms 8.0.3 in French... and a worry
> occurs : some buttons, for example "Search" in copy dialog, are
> displayed with a style="width: 60px;" attribute.
> <input name="selectfolder" type="button" value="Rechercher"
> onclick="top.openTreeWin('copy', true);" class="dialogbutton"
> style="width: 60px;">
>
> Our translations are often longer than in English. So the words are cut!
> Is there a possibility to arrange buttons width with the translation?
> Same question with context menus and others html elements...
>
> Thanks in advance
>
This is a bit late and just an idea: maybe you could change the "width:60px" to  "min-width:60px". min-width is supported by all contemporary browsers and will allow the button to extend if needed. You can then write a bug report and submit a patch to the opencms developers and maybe they will accept your patch into a future version of opencms.

That's the only solution that I can think of. I don't think it would be easy to make the styling truly translation-aware; calculating the necessary button size is pretty impossible (unless you are the browser) because it depends on so many factors.

Kind regards
Christian