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jncraig
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18 Jul 2007 2:05 PM  
Lee,

I'm adapting/butchering this skin for a site of my own.

One problem I've noted in my version is that if the Left Pane is empty, the real estate is displayed as empty.  With some previous skins, if the Pane is empty, then the Content Pane takes up that area.

The Left Pane floats left and the Content Pane floats right. 

What might I have done that's wrong?
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leesykes
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19 Jul 2007 8:13 AM  
Hello,

yes this is normal in a css skin, in a table based skin, the table adjusts itself to 'close the gap' whereas in a css skin the layout remains constant.

What I end up doing is creating different skin layouts for the different contents that I add to the page.

If I don't need the left or right panes I create a single pane skin.

Does this make sense?

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jncraig
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19 Jul 2007 8:24 AM  
That makes perfectly good sense, and I suspected that was what was happening. My existing site has a number of "empty" placeholder modules that I've used to keep an empty panel open. I guess I can start removing those, too!
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leesykes
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19 Jul 2007 8:32 AM  
Yes that's what I am having to do now for each page on DNN C. - One method I am using is SQL queries to update the content for a page rather than manually going into page settings etc.

Basically I enter a tab id number into the query and it automatically deletes the modules I no longer need, moves the modules to the correct content pane, assigns the correct skin and containers - it saves a lot of time and could be worth looking at if you are doing a lot of updating. - I may create a tutorial on this is there is interest in it.

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DavidWSnow
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06 Aug 2007 3:39 PM  
What I have done is have several layouts in the same skin

A sinple pane ContentPane  followed by a
LeftSidePane and a RightSidePane  (usually 30% /70% wide) followed by a
EqualLeftPane and EqualRightPane

So with the same skin I can have ContentPane for most pages,
LeftSidePane and a RightSidePane for the Blog and other module that may need this layout.  etc.

While CSS doesn't close the gap left to right it appears to work top to bottom, so I can still use the same skin for several layouts.

/DaveS
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