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5/30/2006 6:48 AM
 

Hi!

I've made a skin which uses css absolute positioning. It looks great when you view it as a page visitor, but in admin view it is all messed up. All the containers (there are ALOT of them), overlap each other so I cant see all the controls etc. This means it won't really be that intuitive for other people to update the site.

So I was wondering if there is someway to fix this? I want to be able to modify all the modules easily, so I will need to be able to see them The layout does not neccessarily have to look like the userview layout. As long as I can define the look myself, it does not matter that it doesn't look similar to when a user views it.

Hope somebody can help!

Thanks alot on advance.

Regards.

 
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6/2/2006 10:28 AM
 
Can you post some links to screenprints with a example of your problem?
 
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6/6/2006 4:33 AM
 

Hi,

Here's a link to one of the admin pages: http://www.clannies.com/delta/AdminView.jpg (disregard the asp.net error message).

As you can see, the modules are overlapping each other making it really hard to see some of the content.

We need to be able to change all the modules easily, so we need to be able to see them in an ordered fashion. It would be nice if we could just have all the containers arranged orderly below each other.

Do you understand the problem?

/Morten

 
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6/6/2006 9:35 AM
 
Dear Morten

I know that there are several css bugs in IE. When the code is not really standard css then it looks that IE set wrong code good. I suggest that you rebuild  your skin- and all your container-codes and test this out both in IE and FF.
I make a html file that works... and then I remove all what is in the <head></head> tag and I remove also the <body></body> tag. Then you can upload it with the necessary .xml file or you can make that this code works in a asp.net control file .ascx. 
Look here this perhaps can help.

http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support_css.php?IE5_5=on&IE6=on&IE7=on&FX1_5=on&uas=CUSTOM#css2standards

Vriendelijke groeten
Gilbert Vanden Borre
 
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6/7/2006 6:44 PM
 
I think I understand your problem.
In fact you have two I think.
First you should use a contruction like this:

<div style="position:relative">
    <div style="position:absolute">
        "Your site"
    </div>
</div>

This will make the site appear below the page settings row.

Second is the fact that in a way the modules "grow" if you look at them in admin mode.
Since you use absolute positioning they will overlap.
There are two solutions for this.
1. Don't use absolute positioning but use relative (you cold figure that one out yourself I guess)
2. Create a pane for every module and set overflow to auto for the panes.
If the module gets to big for the pane you will get a scroll-bar. This is als safer if you use modules that can grow if you edit them like a menu that can become longer if you add more items.
The layout will stay intact and you can reach the modules.
Not ideal but it's better then the way it is now.

I never found a good solution to load a different stylesheet for te admin
It would be nice if DNN would render this:
<div class="username">
    the website
</div>
Then you could make a skin that is different for different users
But it doesn't
Hope this helps

 
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