Closed jacobthill closed 4 years ago
Although the immediate need for this is DLME, it seems like a potentially useful addition to Spotlight generally. I know of one unpublished but in-progress Stanford exhibit where a browse category subtitle might come in handy.
There are a lot of places in the app this would touch, but I think we could reuse the same HTML and CSS for most contexts.
The DLME use case is to split the time-period browse category titles into two rows, to separate the Gregorian and Hijri versions of the title. The solution I'm proposing would end up looking like this in a browse widget on the homepage:
I don't see any need to worry with responsiveness with this addition; it's really no different from how a long browse category title displays when it has to wrap at small viewports (although long titles that are accompanied by a subtitle won't look too good with the additional line; but that is a curator decision).
Each of the sections below represent a different place in the app I think we'd need to update, along with the HTML and CSS I used for the screenshot in each section, but feel free to improve the solution as you see fit. Note that most of the HTML and CSS additions are very similar -- often identical -- across the different contexts.
There's no change to how you create a browse category. The new thing is offering an additional subtitle field when editing a browse category:
If the Subtitle field remains empty, I don't think anything changes from the way things are now. If there is a Subtitle value for a browse category, when the category is saved, the list of browse categories on the Curation > Browse page updates to look like this, with both the title and subtitle displayed, separated by a dot:
(In all the HTML examples that follow, I include some surrounding HTML for context, but the new part is just the <span class="category-subtitle">(923 - 1342 H)</span>
.)
<h4 class="card-title h6 mb-0">1518 - 1924 CE
<span class="category-subtitle">(923 - 1342 H)</span>
</h4>
span.category-subtitle::before {
content: " \000B7 ";
color: #777; // or #999, whatever has a variable defined
padding-right: 3px;
}
The HTML change is the same as above, just adding the subtitle, if it has a value, as a span within the existing category title HTML:
<h2 class="browse-category-title">1518 - 1924 CE
<span class="category-subtitle">(923 - 1342 H)</span>
<small>49199 items</small>
</h2>
span.category-subtitle {
display: block;
}
If a browse category with a subtitle is selected using the browse category widget, it should display with the title, separator, subtitle, similar to the display on the Curation > Browse page:
<div class="title card-title">1518 - 1924 CE
<span class="category-subtitle">(923 - 1342 H)</span>
</div>
span.category-subtitle::before {
content: " \000B7 ";
color: #777; // or #999, whatever has a variable defined
padding-right: 3px;
}
If a browse category has a subtitle, when it is displayed in the typeahead list of available browse categories, it should (ideally) use the same title-separator-subtitle format as above (I can't figure out how to edit the typeahead menu using the Web Inspector).
The same as displaying on the browse category landing page:
<p class="category-title">1518 - 1924 CE
<span class="category-subtitle">(923 - 1342 H)</span>
</p>
span.category-subtitle {
display: block;
}
The best arrangement I found here was just to keep the title and subtitle on the same line, so in a way it's similar to the display on the Curation > Browse page. Same for the breadcrumb:
<li class="breadcrumb-item active">1518 - 1924 CE
<span class="category-subtitle">(923 - 1342 H)</span>
</li>
span.category-subtitle::before {
content: " \000B7 ";
color: #777; // or #999, whatever has a variable defined
padding-right: 3px;
}
<h1>1518 - 1924 CE
<span class="category-subtitle">(923 - 1342 H)</span>
<small class="item-count">49199 items</small>
</h1>
span.category-subtitle::before {
content: " \000B7 ";
color: #777; // or #999, whatever has a variable defined
padding-right: 3px;
}
Not sure if I did something wrong, but for the page title I also had to add this to keep the item count from being too close to the subtitle:
span.category-subtitle {
padding-right: 0.5rem;
}
The Save this Search modal includes a select menu that enables the user to overwrite an existing browse category title. Ideally we'd want to use the same title-separator-subtitle format in that select menu (in case the curator is using the subtitle as a way to distinguish a group of similarly titled browse categories -- this isn't the DLME use case but I can see it being used that way, and in that way the subtitle is necessary to disambiguate identically titled categories).
I don't know if there's a good way to do that within a select menu <option>
element, though.
We'll also have to add the subtitle field to the Curation > Translations page. I need to spend some time thinking about that (the way that page is now might need some reorganization to enable us to add the subtitle in a nice way), and I don't want to delay this ticket just for that, so I'll create a separate ticket for it.
Currently there is no way to force text onto a newline in the browse category title field. Ideally the Hijri date could be forced to a newline for visual clarity.