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Having home.asp call a separate CSS file : ProductCart assumes that it should...

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:14:33 +0000

Author: ProductCart
Subject: 3583
Posted: 03-April-2010 at 2:14pm

ProductCart assumes that it should fit 100% of the space allocated to it. We believe that any other assumption would be incorrect. That's because we do not want to make any decisions on your behalf on whether or not our content should fit tightly within your Web interface.

As a result, the padding should be set for the "container" DIV or TD. That is, the DIV or TD that you split when you create header.asp and footer.asp.

When you create those files, header.asp typically ends with the opening "

" or "" tag (and footer.asp has the closing one). That's the interface element that you want to target to create padding around what the content that ProductCart will display.

Assign an ID (e.g.

) to it and then target it in your CSS file.

We hope this helps.

Having home.asp call a separate CSS file : OK thank you for the response....

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:04:21 +0000

Author: BlackReefDesigns
Subject: 3583
Posted: 03-April-2010 at 3:04am

OK thank you for the response. However, I couldn't quite figure out how to work your solution. I updated the line in the Home.asp file and then added the new class to the pcstorefront.css, but the padding on the home.asp page was still there.

Anyways, like I said, maybe Im making this more difficult then it is.

Unless I change the padding for the main content area on the entire site, the padding on the content pages is non-existant. Atleast for the rest of the site (ex; product details pages) I can go in and add padding in the pcStoreFront.css to make the page look better. With the content pages though, I cant edit the padding with the pcstorefront.css file, atleast I havent been able to find how to do it with the firefox web dev. tools. Here is an example:

http://hendersondefense.com.mytempweb.com/store/pc/viewContent.asp?idpage=2

Point being, is I think creating a separate home file separate from the rest of the site just for padding issues might be overkill.

When I use the CSS web dev. tools in firefox, it's not showing that the content pages have editable CSS (I would like to add 10 px padding on left, right sides)

In the past, Ive actually set the padding in PC's built in HTML editor when editing content pages, but I think this can be controlled somehow in a css file.

Plus Im still learning proper css so this is frustrating for me, lol. Im sure its got to be a simple fix but I cant find it

Edited by BlackReefDesigns - 03-April-2010 at 3:06am

Having home.asp call a separate CSS file : The simplest way to go is to slightly...

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:55:10 +0000

Author: ProductCart
Subject: 3583
Posted: 02-April-2010 at 1:55am

The simplest way to go is to slightly edit "home.asp" and change the name of the class used for that section of the page. You can then target the new CSS class in any existing CSS document used by header.asp (e.g. pcStorefront.css).

Locate:

<%=pcStrHPDesc%>

Replace with:

<%=pcStrHPDesc%>

... then style your new "pcPageDescHomePage" CSS class.

Having home.asp call a separate CSS file : Hello,Well the main content...

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:31:41 +0000

Author: BlackReefDesigns
Subject: 3583
Posted: 01-April-2010 at 7:31pm

Hello,

Well the main content area of this page I'm working on has 5px padding. This is perfect for the entire site - except we can't have this padding on the home.asp page.

On the home page, I would like '0' padding in this main content area

So what I was thinking was creating a separate header/footer.asp and naming them something like header_home.asp, footer_home.asp and have the home.asp call the new files instead of the regular header/footer. Of course these new header/footer files would call their own stylesheet to have no

padding as desired, but that means if I need to update the static nav links or something, Id have to update the new header/footer_home.asp files and the regular header/footer files.

Another option I was thinking is I could just have the home.asp call a separate CSS file with the update padding dimensions, but it looks like the home.asp calls the header/footer which calls the stylesheet.

Is there any way to have the home.asp call it's own stylesheet or must it go through the header/footer files?

Hope that makes sense!

Maybe Im making this more difficult than it is, still learning!

Thank you very much for any help,
-J

Edited by BlackReefDesigns - 01-April-2010 at 7:33pm