HTML5: Specify element type on regions and panes (i.e. article, section, aside)

Glad you like the idea! This feature would dovetail very nicely in the theme just released: Panels 960gs. Dixhuit, be sure to check it out!

Merlin, sorry if all the posting on 960gs is spammy to you - I must be in at least a dozen of your threads!

The style controls the element, and styles can have forms. In order to achieve this, you'd need to create a style that does it.

Perhaps we could attempt to modify the default style to do this, I'm not sure. It'd be best if it starts out as a separate style and if it turns out to be really great, gets integrated back in.

I'm on it! Consider it done. I need this functionality for 960gs so I'm going to mod the default styles (...in hopes to integrate into Panels itself later on).

Merlin, quick question RE overriding the plugins.

I used to use function panels_960gs_960_16_484_panels_layouts() but now I'm using:

<?php
$plugin = array(
  'title' => t('960/16 4-8-4'),
  'category' => t('960gs: 16'),
  'icon' => 'icon.png',
  'css' => '../../../../lib/grid.css',
  'theme' => '960_16_484',
  'regions' => array(
    'top' => t('Top'),
    'aboveLeft' => t('Above Left'),
    'aboveCenter' => t('Above Center'),
    'aboveRight' => t('Above Right'),
    'middle' => t('Middle'),
    'belowLeft' => t('Below Left'),
    'belowCenter' => t('Below Center'),
    'belowRight' => t('Below Right'),
    'bottom' => t('Bottom')
  ),
);
?>

...to define Panel layouts. Is the hook deprecated? Or is that would I would use to override a layout defined by $plugin? How would I go about overriding the definition itself?

And ultimately, how exactly would this apply to styles?

The hook is deprecated but it won't actually be going away -- there are legitimate reasons why you might still actually need to use the hook.

Ok, thanks!

I'm not quite sure how we got from changing styles to overriding layouts, though.

I've got my Panels training wheels on and I'm just about to lose them... I was assuming the $plugin definition for layouts would be similar to styles so I phrased the question that way. Bear with me :) thanks. I checked the Advanced Help area for /help/panels/plugins-style and it seems incomplete? No worries.. just know that I'm trying to do all my research and self-help before imploring your time.

EDIT: Moved part of this comments to #1040422: Layout Migration (migrate one panel layout to another layout on theme upgrade)

Proof-of-concept patch attached; its against alpha2 and is relative to the panels module directory. Should I be working against HEAD?

It was easier to copy the code used for "CSS properties" but I imagine it would be best if this was done the way "Style" is done with a sub menu.

With "div" set to default and various options (like aside, section, etc...), we could easily do the following in pane output:

<<?php print $tag; ?>>
.........
.........
.........
</<?php print $tag; ?>>

Thoughts?