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12/26/2008 11:43 AM
 

 As I'm checking out DNN I'm getting the feeling that its difficult to simply bring my CSS files over into DNN and have them work. That if I do go to DNN I'm basically going to be working with tables - something that much of the design community thinks is rather abhorrent. I know there is the question of browser compliance  but hasn't that faded greatly? Once I get my site to work in Firefox it basically works on every popular browser (except for the newest Google- chrome!) . Anyway is using CSS to structure my site difficult, not too difficult or easy?

 
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12/26/2008 4:16 PM
 

I am not a developer, and by no means a skinning expert, but I have been playing around with developing some skins without tables lately, and I find that it is not too difficult at all (been using DNN since 2003).   For a developer, I would then think it must be easy.   From what I can see, you are not locked into using tables with DNN, but I personally hesitate with going pure CSS because of what I read in regards to browser compliance (but I am still learning about it).   See the skinning documentation with DNN and Skinning forums for info on this.


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12/26/2008 7:46 PM
 

 Thanks! does this imply that you run into different browser problems when you're skinning DNN modules with CSS then you would if you're using CSS in a standard HTML or ASP.net page?  Thanks for alerting me to the skinning forum. Cort

 
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12/26/2008 8:55 PM
 

I don't  think the problems are any different between DNN and standard html or asp.net, but I would hope others will jump in and give you more details (I am not qualified).   You may want to post in the Skinning forum, and the Skinning documentation within the Dnn download (documentation folder) will give you a good starting point related to DNN.   


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12/26/2008 11:09 PM
 

In my opinion it's no more difficult to use CSS in a DNN skin or content page than using it anywhere else.  The problem DNN has with CSS is not in the skins and pages.  The core modules are largely written using tables and if you drop a module into your skin you may find that you have little control over it with CSS.  Sometimes the module creators have thoughtfully provided CSS classnames that will give you some control over the layout but other times there isn't much you can do without Javascript and ASP.NET.

Many of the third party modules boast of using CSS and I think the core modules are slowly moving toward CSS.

Hope this helps.

BK

 
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