Problem using CSS styles
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:08 am
I am in the early days of testing CMSMS for use by for my employers website and quite possibly my own.
I haven't yet got down to building my own templates and have just been experimenting with the installed CMSMS design. I am impressed with the simplicity of its use and am enjoying using it.
I have tried shoehorning in a plain HTML page designed in Dreamweaver from my employer's website which uses CSS styles but for this page only (as it is used for an HTML email) these are not defined in a separate stylesheet, instead they are defined inline in the HTML.
The page is table-based (is this the best method with CMSMS or should DIVs be used?) and I had to remove some of the 'Width' and 'Height' tags that Dreamweaver had embedded, but otherwise the page has gone in very well.
One problem though when published in CMSMS is that it doesn't look quite the same in terms of the styles that are defined and used as it is seen my employer's website or in the HTML emails we send out. CMSMS doesn't seem to have 'rendered' (if that is the right word) the HTML in the same way.
This affects lines at the edge of some cells, some hyperlinks on the right-hand side which have had 'no decoration' (i.e. no underlining) defined for them, as well as the size of the text itself.
Rather than explain any more, please have a look at the page as displayed in a private area of my employer's website:
~ttp://www.chasecooper.com/Email_Newsletter_Template.php
and as displayed on my CMSMS test website:
~ttp://ww~.lunnlimited.co.uk/cmsmadesimple/index.php?page=email-newsletter
Please can someone explain why CMSMS renders the HTML styles differently to their default as they were designed?
Many thanks in advance.
I haven't yet got down to building my own templates and have just been experimenting with the installed CMSMS design. I am impressed with the simplicity of its use and am enjoying using it.
I have tried shoehorning in a plain HTML page designed in Dreamweaver from my employer's website which uses CSS styles but for this page only (as it is used for an HTML email) these are not defined in a separate stylesheet, instead they are defined inline in the HTML.
The page is table-based (is this the best method with CMSMS or should DIVs be used?) and I had to remove some of the 'Width' and 'Height' tags that Dreamweaver had embedded, but otherwise the page has gone in very well.
One problem though when published in CMSMS is that it doesn't look quite the same in terms of the styles that are defined and used as it is seen my employer's website or in the HTML emails we send out. CMSMS doesn't seem to have 'rendered' (if that is the right word) the HTML in the same way.
This affects lines at the edge of some cells, some hyperlinks on the right-hand side which have had 'no decoration' (i.e. no underlining) defined for them, as well as the size of the text itself.
Rather than explain any more, please have a look at the page as displayed in a private area of my employer's website:
~ttp://www.chasecooper.com/Email_Newsletter_Template.php
and as displayed on my CMSMS test website:
~ttp://ww~.lunnlimited.co.uk/cmsmadesimple/index.php?page=email-newsletter
Please can someone explain why CMSMS renders the HTML styles differently to their default as they were designed?
Many thanks in advance.
