[Zope] How to overlay one column of a page

Andreas Jung lists at andreas-jung.com
Sun Jun 5 06:53:29 EDT 2005



--On 5. Juni 2005 11:33:42 +0100 John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org> wrote:

>
> I need some advice on how to format a page and am not sure how to explain
> what I want to do but hope someone will figure out what I want to do...
>
>
> Basically I have a home page consisting of a standard header and footer,
> and three columns - the left and right ones also being standard, with
> only  the middle column having content specific to a given page.
>
> What I would like to do in the left column is have a set of links to
> other  pages on the same website with the content of each of those links
> overlaying the middle column.
>
>
> There must be a fairly straightforward way of doing this using minimal
> codeing, but I can't figure it out.
>
> Can anyone give me a pointer to some sample code?

Create a ZPT and divide your template into slots (metal:define-slot) and 
fill the content using metal:fill-slot. Everything's documented in the Zope 
Book (there are *three* chapters on ZPT).

-aj

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