924473 - Page preview styles are out of sync with normal page styles

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P3)

Description

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

What did you do?
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1. Edit https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
2. Hit "Preview changes"

What happened?
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* Quick links column does not float
* margin/padding of headlines/sections aren't the same as in the normal page view

What should have happened?
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Same styles as in th normal page view to get a real preview.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Good shout.  We'll have to rethink preview because we're now doing much, much more within the document template.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I propose to remove this from the blocker list. Reason: not visible for the regular user.

Comment 3

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

This is a moderate to large fix, since preview styles heavily rely on a page's current state.  Just my initial though.

Comment 4

[ali spivak]

I'm fine with this moving to post-launch.

Comment 5

[gorhgorh]

upvoting this one, because this implies some kind of "hacking" to make proper live exemple at the moment, i just realised that to see actual changes you are working on, since the live code relies on the "real" page, you actually have to SAVE the changes on the live page to check it. 

right now i'm using david's trick (using a dummy page to make the livecode THEN copy it in the main page when done, but i feel there is room for improvement on this one (we actually talked about livedemo at the paris mdn weekend, Ali may come back with some of our ideas, in a better shape than our etherpad ^^)

Comment 6

[sjw]

Not sure if this is related, but the style preview in the editor menu is also affected.

Comment 8

[BMO Automation]

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