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clintonG
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Themes and Stylesheet Management9/19/2005 9:39:02 PM

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I have found no documentation or blog -- yet -- that discusses how to use Themes and multiple style sheets to support various browsers and so on.

I got started using the SmokeAndGlass Theme and wrote all of my new style declarations into the default Stylesheet.css that I found with that theme. Now I need to refactor by relocating many if not most of my declarations out of App_Themes/SmokeAndGlass/Stylesheet.css and into one or more style sheets I intend to locate at ~/Stylesheets/SmokAndGlass/SmokeAndGlass.css.
 
I'm asking for your opinions and best practice methodologies you may have devised or discovered.

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vimodi
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Re: Themes and Stylesheet Management9/20/2005 5:42:52 PM

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When stylesheets(.css) are defined in the theme folder (/App_Themes/themeName) then it will autometically applied to the page to which Theme is applied.

There are two ordering occurs when .css is applied thorugh Theme
1. ordering of .css files stored in Theme folder. - If theme folder contains multiple .css files (a.css, b.css and c.css) then its applied in a alphabetical order to the page.
2. ordering of .css file stored in Theme folder and content specified in the Head tag of page. - If page is using Theme then the .css specified in the Theme folder are applied later. But if page is using StyleSheetTheme then .css specified in the Theme folder are applied first.

So the combine effect will be like -

    page-> a.css
    theme -> b.css & c.ss
    then rendered output is : a b c

    page-> a.css
    satylesheettheme -> b.css & c.css
    then rendered output is : b c a


If you decided to move stylesheet(.css) out of theme folder then .css wont be applied directly to the page.

HTH
Vishal
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clintonG
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Re: Themes and Stylesheet Management9/21/2005 1:04:41 AM

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Thank you for responding vimodi. I now recall reading your previous forum replies that explained the alphabetical parsing order but your reply does not resolve some issues I am concerned with. How did you discover this alphabetical parsing anyway?

This article from Jesse Liberty [1] does a good job of -- starting -- to explain Themes and Skins but there is still a lot left unsaid. 

How do we programatically load style sheets for different browsers? Any .css files located in the App_Themes folder will all be stuffed into the head like a garbage dump. Even .css files put into folders that are in the App_Themes folder will be pulled out of the folders and dumped like a garbage dump.

Ordinarily we have been using Javascript or @import directives in the head to logically determine or load css files. How are we supposed to control css files that are needed in the head 'after' the Theme is dumped into the head? I use positioning and to programatically load different style sheets after a Theme has been selected in a DLL and is written into the page directive using Pre_Init.

I've tested using the new Html Link class and it does allow us to write link elements into the head and they do appear after the the style sheet emitted by the Theme but there's still plenty of methodology to be learned and if anybody has picked up anymore tips and tricks I'm waiting to hear from them :-)




[1] http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/11/15/libertyonwhidbey.html


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vimodi
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Re: Themes and Stylesheet Management9/21/2005 6:56:32 PM

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One way to achieve that will be defining different Themes for different borswers using device filters. And in each theme put css specific to that browser.

<%@ Page Language="C#" IE:Theme="IeTheme" Mozilla:Theme="MozillaTheme" %>

HTH
Vishal
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clintonG
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Re: Themes and Stylesheet Management9/22/2005 2:20:51 PM

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Yes, thank you, but where is the documentation? I've been all over MSDN and its not jumping off the page at me.
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