Check out Makruk (Thai Chess), our featured variant for March, 2025.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Apr 23 12:58 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from 09:47 AM:

I am thinking that if you did the layout with CSS instead of as a table, the problem of having an extra board or extra white space on Apple devices would go away.

I don't really understand what it means to do the layout with CSS. I was under the impression that CSS is just a method for globally assigning style attributes to HTML elements. The same style elements that can also be set on a per-element basis by a style="name:value" attribute in a HTML element, or by assigning to it in JavaScript as <element>.style.name = value.

So if the board is not a table, how would a program specify which image should be drawn where on the page, and to reserve space for that?

In the Diagram script the function Display() is quite independent from the rest of the program; its only function is to read the board[rank][file] array, and draw the image. If there exists another method for making a board diagram appear on the screen, a routine using that method could easily be used as replacement without the rest of the program knowing about it.

Another issue is how to arrange mouse-click input. This is now handled by attaching event handlers (for mouse down or up, touch, hover etc.) to the individual cells, which get the (diagram number, rank, file) as parameters to indicate what was clicked. Each table cell would have its own calls to these handlers, passing the parameters to reveal their identity. If there is no table I don't know what HTML element would accept the clicks (a canvas?), but there could be some 'master handler' that gets passed the coordinates of the click location in some way in pixels, and then calculates which board cell such a click would belong to. And then call the existing handlers for that type of event passing tose deduced (rank, file) numbers.

None of this should be very difficult.


Edit Form

Comment on the page Xiangqi: Chinese Chess

Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Avoid Inflammatory Comments
If you are feeling anger, keep it to yourself until you calm down. Avoid insulting, blaming, or attacking someone you are angry with. Focus criticisms on ideas rather than people, and understand that criticisms of your ideas are not personal attacks and do not justify an inflammatory response.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.