Tuesday, February 22, 2005
by Nik Kalyani
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:24:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

There is a lively discussion on the DotNetNuke Core Team forums about DNN stylesheets. If there is one area of DNN that I don't care much for, it would be in how DNN handles stylesheets. It's a bit messy and leaves even the most CSS-savvy designer scratching their head about how/where/why a particular style was inherited by a particular element.

Personally, I don't think there is a need for host, portal, skin, container and module stylesheets. There should be one stylesheet used on the page and that is the skin stylesheet. All classes required by a page where the skin is applied should be defined in this stylesheet. While this may require a bit more work, it is definitive and portable.

 

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Friday, February 25, 2005 7:02:09 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
You and I are on the same page (puns intended) there Nik.
I hope we can convince some of the designers that even though they have figured out some of the nuances, that a more direct approach would be must better.
Friday, February 25, 2005 8:30:46 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Absolutely! Firstly it is quite confusing to learn if you use DNN all the time. But try explaining it to someone who is a reasonably good designer but has no DNN knowledge... I can't see why this would be a problem to implement?
Friday, February 25, 2005 8:40:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Maybe we need a Stylesheet Unification campaign.
Nik Kalyani
Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:54:48 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I agree,

I am working with dnn 3 for a few weeks now and when making skins i have to edit a css and a ascx file in the skin and container directory. Very confushing sometimes. You realy got to think in wich file you edit, so you don't make mistakes.
Monday, July 11, 2005 11:31:37 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
My thoughts as well. In all honesty, the css included could use a little clearer documentation as well. You know, for us doo-doo heads.

//This section does this
.blah

//This section makes more of those
.blueblah

//This section went to market
.bleeblueblah

...and so on.

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