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sottwell Reply #11, 20 years, 4 months ago

It will be called in your template’s HTML head, just like any HTML link to its CSS file.

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modxusr Reply #12, 20 years, 4 months ago

Thanks.
1) If I want a (second)css file linked to only one of the pages how do I call that? As usual in the common template? It is not needed in the other pages.
2) Also can I style the page, where individual news items are added? where do I specify the styles?

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sottwell Reply #13, 20 years, 4 months ago

You can use a snippet that makes a $modx->regClientCSS($css) function call. The $css variable can be the name of a CSS file, or a full chunk of CSS code in <style...> </style> tags. Put that snippet in your document, and now only that document will have that link/block of CSS in its head.

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modxusr Reply #14, 20 years, 4 months ago

Thanks a lot, Susan.
But I cannot seem to add style to the posts.
What I did was add my own values to the attributes from the samplesheet
(as provided in the documentation pdf) I added these to my default stylesheet.
Am I doing it right?

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Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #15, 20 years, 4 months ago

A link to website would be helpfull!

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modxusr Reply #16, 20 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: zi at Jun 20, 2006, 02:51 AM

A link to website would be helpfull!

Unfortunately, its on a local pc.
I’m testing it before going online.
If there is some post where styling entries (Ditto) is discussed, please forward the link. I cannot seem to find any.
Thanks.

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Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #17, 20 years, 4 months ago

I dont get it! Styling is really simple, I guess you dont have grip on basic css ? if this is the case, you have to learn CSS before! no offence!

Here is a link to get started: http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/basics/index.html

Hope it helps.

regards,

zi

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modxusr Reply #18, 20 years, 4 months ago

Actually , no probs with the css.
I wanted to know the attributes whose values are to be set..
Like in the ditto help pdf,
I set values for .ditto_article, .ditto_title ...etc but it doesn’t seem to work.
Thanks for your time.

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Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #19, 20 years, 4 months ago

Look at the chunk below:

<div class="ditto_summaryPost">
<h3 class="ditto_title"><a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+title+]</a></h3>
<div>[+summary+]</div>
<p class="ditto_link">[+link+]</p>
<div style="text-align:right;">by <strong>[+author+]</strong> on
[+date+]</div>
</div>

You are not bound to use them, design your post block in your HTML editor, apply styles on it. When you get done, replace sample content with Ditto tags and put in chunk, upload css file and thats it.

For example, I use DIVs for all:

<div class="ditto_summaryPost">
<div class="post-title">[+title+]</div>
<div class="post-summary">[+summary+]</div>
<div class="post-link">[+link+]</div>
<div class="post-author">[+author+]</div>
</div>

Hope it helps.

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modxusr Reply #20, 20 years, 4 months ago

seems like exactly what i need.
thanks a million.