Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out how to show the same module in different visual ways. I know the module.css is loaded automatically and applies to any instance of the module, as all the elements, classes are the same within any instance... which actually makes modules look similar.

What I want is to show multiple instances of the same module, and apply different CSS styles to each instance, say instance1 of the module should use module1.css, instance2 should be using module2.css, etc...

Any experience?

That's exactly what I've been looking for.

Never thought of such CSS tricks - with minor addons works perfect!

Thanks Cathal!

Yeah, to make things clear, my objective was to be able to show the same module different ways:

1. general layout was to show listview items in usual over-under order,
2. specific layout, where listview items would appear in side-by-side manner.

There are other criteria to show/hide like showing dates and categories, as well as number of items to show. All are managed by module's TabSettings.

So what I did was:

ASCX:

<asp:ListView ID="LV_Main" runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <div id="EntryWrapper" runat="server" class="divEntryWrapper">
            ...
        </div>
    </ItemTemplate>
    <LayoutTemplate>
        <div ID="itemPlaceholderContainer" runat="server">
            <span runat="server" id="itemPlaceholder" />
        </div>
    </LayoutTemplate>

Code Behind:

Protected Sub LV_Main_LayoutCreated(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles LV_Main.LayoutCreated

    Dim itemPlaceholderContainer As HtmlControl = DirectCast(sender.FindControl("itemPlaceholderContainer"), HtmlControl)
    itemPlaceholderContainer.Attributes.Add("class", "GeBlogPage" & TabId.ToString)

End Sub

I've put the logic into the code-behind as putting it directly into the ASCX didn't work for some reason.

module.css

/* General Layout */
.divEntryWrapper
{
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    -moz-border-radius: 7px;
    border-radius: 7px;
    margin-bottom: 2em;
}

/*Page specific layout */
.GeBlogPage55 .divEntryWrapper
{
    border-style: solid; 
    border-width: 1px;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 19.5%;
    text-align:center;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

The example above for page specific layout assumes the TabId=55.

Hope this helps!