Question

How can I make verbatim text (enclosed within VERBATIM-tags) coloured? Is there a way to attach a stylesheet and a class-attribute on PRE?

• TWiki version: 01 Sep 2001
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Linux
• Web browser: Mozilla 0.9.5
• Client OS: Linux

-- TWikiGuest - 31 Oct 2001

Answer

This is not currently supported as far as I know - however, you can modify TWiki's templates to use a CSS stylesheet (and in the Sep 2001 release this may just be a matter of setting a variable). This would let you control the colour of all VERBATIM-tagged text, by controlling it at the HTML level. Not exactly what you want perhaps, but you can always have a go at TWiki coding yourself!

-- RichardDonkin - 05 Nov 2001

Discussion

On this subject, a useful plugin could be to provide a "poor man's XSLT": have a way in TWiki to "define" html tags as CSS selectors:

example:

• define somewhere: day = span class='day'
• then, in the wiki page, you can write: on <day>first</day>, we...
• the plugin will expanse it to: on <span class='day'>first</span>, we...
• and then we can color it via CSS as: span.day { color: red; }

I think this would provide a simple way to add color to text, with a "html" flavor already known from users (rather than using a TWiki syntax %DAY{first}%, which is a bit unnatural for end users. Moreover this syntax can also be easily parser by XSLT parsers, allowing other transforms.

Back to our subject, that would mean using <pre> rather than <verbatim> and custom "tags" defined this way, maybe <red>foo</red>, etc...

-- ColasNahaboo - 06 Nov 2001