As far as I understand you are supposed to write [CONTENTPANE] as a placeholder where you want your content to be placed, and if you want more then one content pane you write [CONTENTPANE:X] where X is a unique number for each content pane. But in the html-skin you get when you create a new skin with the starter kit (4.0.2) there is no [CONTENTPANE] but still it still seams to work. Why is there an ID specified for the td-tags that the starter kit uses as content panes? Why do the TD tags have "runat=server" in a HTML sknin file?

Is there another way to do content panes then writing [CONTENTPANE] in a html-skin? Where is the documentation for this?

This is what the table defining the different content part look like in the starter kits default skin

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<TABLE cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" width="100%" border="0">
  <TR>
    <TD colspan="3" id="TopPane" runat="server" valign="top">  </TR>
  <TR valign="top">
    <TD id="LeftPane" runat="server" valign="top">    <TD id="ContentPane" runat="server" valign="top">    <TD id="RightPane" runat="server" valign="top">  </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD colspan="3" id="BottomPane" runat="server" valign="top">  </TR>
</TABLE>

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This can be a little confusing when first starting out, if you follow the format of the Standard skins it will make sense.

The id that has been set in the table cell corresponds to the Text that you will read in the drop down list from the admin control panel when you are selecting which pane to insert your module. - So basically the id names the content panes.

runat=server is required for DNN to set up these ids as content panes.

If you try out this format you will find that it makes much more sense and is easy for understanding which Content pane you are inserting your modules into.

Hope this helps, thanks,

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Hello,

Yes when you see runat=server in your html file, this is a content pane where you can add a module.
If you don't want to use tables, you can use divs,  eg.

<div id="contentpane" class="container_sponsor" runat="server"></div>

Or,

[CONTENTPANE] is still supported, I use the other method because I find it easier to follow when creating a skin. - It's just 2 different ways of working. - Check the skinning documentation pages 12-13 from the docs that are available for download. This discusses the [CONTENTPANE] token.

Hope this helps,

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