Hello all!

This is my first post! :) I am creating a skin package for my work and I am having trouble attaching a CSS when the browser is IE. The container skin looks fine in FF and all, but not so much in IE (no surprise). So I am not sure what to do? I know for a skin file, you have the STYLES object and I tried inserting that into my container's skin.html file, but when I parse it I get an error:

DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.portals__default_containers_xxxx_v1_standard_ascx' to type 'DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin'. ---> System.InvalidCastException

So I go over and check the container's skin.ascx file and the tags for Style is register and the object also generates the <dnn:STYLES > tags...so I tried a conditional statement in the container's skin.html file so see if the container will pick up the stylesheet that way after parsing, and it does.

So now I am at lost as how to attach this additional style sheet for my container when the user's browser is IE so that it will display correctly. Any help would be great appreciated.

Thanks!

-Kim

Rick,

Hey there! Thanks for helping out. I am not sure of the doc type that is being used for the containers?

I didn't come across a setting for it anywhere or changed it. But in my skin folder, there is a doctype.xml and in there I added

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd

in addition to the one already there.. which was the 1.0 Transitional.

As far as a link goes, I don't have one to provide for you because it is on the intranet of our work but I can provide screen shots and hope this will suffice. Were you wanting screen shots of the error, or of what the container looks like between FF And IE?

-Kim

Rick,

 Here are the screen shots

Here it is in FF: http://screencast.com/t/YmExY2I2Yzk
and in IE: http://screencast.com/t/MzQxNzFlNW

As you can see, the top is cut off in IE. I

I have never really worked with doctypes before, I will research it and see what I come up with. And yes I am working locally right now through visual studios with the skin so that I don't have to upload and parse everytime.

Thanks,
-Kim