



Absolute positioning strikes me as likely to confuse TiddlyWiki's layout, but I'm mostly a “guess and check” CSS user so I can't explain why, except that I've tried to do it in the past and it hasn't worked very well. But your situation may be different.
Also, wouldn't that be applying the same absolute positioning to every tiddler in the story river,
which could include both the details and the entry/chapter?
You might be able to use data-tags to apply the special positioning/sizing only to one of the items.
Hi Frank,You are right. That looks nicer as a default. ... The setting I created fits my personal needs ;). ..
IMO it should be possible to define your setting that way ...
It really strikes me that one of the TW gurus who understand it's CSS/HTML and the cascade that binds the two ...... could probably give us a better TOOL to PLAY with layout dynamically???
PMario's "fits my personal needs" is a kinda understatement :-) ... I agree with him that ...I do think it is true that DIFFERENT APPS (end-usages) often need DIFFERENT FACES (end-looks / UI).
In a sense, at the moment, I think we making a saga where actually a simple tool might solve anyone's problem pretty easily???
... vanilla CSS atm is close to 2500 lines of code.
... "simple tool" ... I think you meant "simple to use tool" ... The backend side of this tool imo is complex and will need a lot of thought. As I wrote in my last post.
@Tones, I don't know if you can make a tool out of it but you can use CSS variables to get a start with one element's width effecting another's...body.tc-body {--sidebarWidth: 33.33%;}

1. On my 15" laptop, the sidebar is way too scrunched to be useful.
2. When I reduced my browser window from full to about a centimeter less wide, it switches to "mobile" layout and the sidebar moves above the story river.
3. So #1 and #2 tell me this is a solution created for developers that have super wide screens, but not taking into account those of us with average sized screens.
4. If this were core, this would mean that upon upgrading, I would need to a) know what to do to fix it, and b) go in and do it. For every file I upgrade. This is not a "backwards-compatible" solution. It would be better to leave it as it has always been, with the original two options, and add this as a third option. But not make this third option default.
5. Your example takes away fixed story, fluid river, which is my default option. Are you proposing eliminating that option?
6. I did like someone's suggestion of "All centered". Then have a field to adjust the width of the margins, and a slider to adjust the %'s of story vs sidebar. But again, this should not be default, but a third option.
I am of the opinion that in the case of centring, the width of the story must always be a percentage (e.g. 60%).
The sidebar must have a minimum width. For example 300px. We have two problems with this. Firstly, the breakpoint for the sidebar no longer works.Consequently, falling below the page width must be used for this breakpoint.

My display is at the recommended 1920 x 1080. That is a typical laptop setting.
You keep repeating 'just change it in the control panel', but it wouldn't be fair that I and everyone who uses more typical screen sizes like mine, and tools like Muuri and Stroll, would have to go through a 4 or 5 step process after updating every file we want to update to the next version of TW, and any new empty we download, because of your subjective preference that your centralized should be the default theme, and because you have a monster-sized screen and-or have the resolution so high that the text is really small.

Like I wrote before, yes, by all means, make changes to the centralized theme, just don't make it default. That way if you want it, great. Since you say the process is so easy, then you can do that.

While on this layout question I have always felt the default in Mobile mode should be withe the sidebar closed or at the bottom as the footer. This is even more so when we now have the menu bar available.
Apart from that, variable widths depending on your own screen would still be worth considering for a default setting?You could use a min-width as well as a max-width for the Storyriver. Designers and graphic artists like to work with the "golden ratio".
