The current problem I'm having with the 2-column layout is that the top of each region are both very important, and the bottom of the regions are less so.
I would like to try a 2-column panels layout that actually has three regions. The left column is broken into two regions: left-upper and left-lower. The right region is a just "right".
Something like this:
+------------+------------+
| left-upper | right |
+------------+ +
| left-lower | |
+------------+------------+
But when it went narrow, the "right" region would slip between the two left regions, like so:
+------------+
| left-upper |
+------------+
| right |
+------------+
| left-lower |
+------------+
Another, similar layout could be four regions like so:
Wide and normal:
+------------+------------+
| left-upper | right-upper|
+------------+------------+
| left-lower | right-lower|
+------------+------------+
narrow:
+------------+
| left-upper |
+------------+
| right-upper|
+------------+
| left-lower |
+------------+
| right-lower|
+------------+
It would need to be able to slide up, though, so it could look like this, depending on the content:
+------------+------------+
| left-upper | right-upper|
| +------------+
| | right-lower|
+------------+ |
| left-lower |------------+
+------------+
but when "narrow" still be able to slide together:
narrow:
+------------+
| left-upper |
| |
| |
+------------+
| right-upper|
+------------+
| left-lower |
+------------+
| right-lower|
| |
+------------+
The problem with using the multi-layer layout is that if you put stuff below the full-width region, it doesn't slide up.
So, what do you think? Do you think this is possible?
Comments
Comment #1
Argus commentedThe first example is not possible I think. The second one is default behaviour of zones in 2 different regions (upper and lower). In the third example: content in different regions won't "slide up".
Comment #2
shawn dearmond commentedThank you for your response. I'm really looking for a way to merge the regions differently than it currently does. If you don't think #1 is possible, then the rest of it probably isn't either. Hm.
The way I got around it for now is to have the panes appear twice, once in each region, and use CSS to have them "display: none" in the wide, normal, or narrow css files, depending on where I want them. The drawback of this is that, without css, (aka, what Google sees), Comments will appear twice on the page.
Still, looks cool in action.
Comment #3
rogical commentedBTW, how can we custom a panels layout? where to put it?
Comment #4
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