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eureka
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21 Aug 2007 3:01 AM  
Hi Lee

I have been looking at the coding of the skins in Issue 22.

With regard to the skin for Andrea01, I was impressed by your efficent coding.

In the skin.css (I will replace {} with () to enable viewing on the forum)

/****** Header *****/
#header (
margin:5px 0 0;
padding:0;
)

#header img (
margin:0 0 5px;
float:left;
)

#header p (
width:400px;
float:right;
text-align:right;
margin: 8px 15px 0 0;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:1.3em;
)


The xhtml for this section is:  (I will replace <> and [] with () for viewing purposes)

(div id="header")
   (LOGO)
    (p)(USER)  (LOGIN)(/p)
    (p)(SEARCH)(/p) 
(/div)


I have previously achieved this by creating classes within the header div, a logo class and login class, thus creating two extra classes, when the same result could be achieved using contextual selectors as above.

Whilst the above works well when inserting, a search, login or user skin object within the

(div id="header")  (p) (dnn:LOGIN runat="server" id="dnnLOGIN"  /) (/p) (/div)

Trying to use this efficient coding further, I tried to insert a content pane into the  (p) (/p) tags instead of login etc:

(div id="header")  (p)(div runat="server" id="topInfo" /)(/p) (/div)

It messed with the position, the right float jumped under the left float. Is there a way use this method for positioning content panes?


Any suggestions.

Lynn
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leesykes
DNN Creative Staff
Nuke Master III
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Posts:3325
22 Aug 2007 10:19 AM  
Hi Lynn,

I can't take full credit for the coding, the main work was done by Andreas, I just followed the already created html / css code and adapted it to suit DNN.

I'm unsure about the content panes question. - Browsers may not like you placing div tags inside p tags, I haven't tried it. - I would run your code through the W3C validator to see if it picks out any errors as a starting point.

Let us know how you get on,

Thanks,
Lee Sykes
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