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	newbie06
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Theming with multiple CSS files some hard coded some changed programmatically

3/3/2008 6:55:59 PM

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This is my first attempt at Theming. I would like to make good use of Themes. Here is that situation that I have.I have a master.css which applies to every page, I also have iewin-hacks.css which applies to every page. Then I have a green.css, brown.css, blue.css etc. which changes the theme of the page. I started to make a Green, Blue and Brown theme folder and cut and paste the master.css and iewin-hacks.css into every folder. I was hoping for a better way of doing this. Basically the master.css and iewin-hacks.css applies to every page no matter what theme the user picks only the Green.css, Blue.css or Brown.css changes.Could I have a DefaultTheme folder where I add the master.css and iewin-hacks.css and then have a theme folder for every special theme which would have one css, images and skin file?

How would that work if I have the master.css and iewin-hacks hard coded in my Master Page and only change the user chosen theme on the fly? Is this doable? Can anybody help a Themes newbie.

	avanslaars
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Re: Theming with multiple CSS files some hard coded some changed programmatically

3/3/2008 11:00:59 PM

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Your best bet would be to include your shared (master and iewin-hacks) stylesheets in a directory in the root of your site, say "styles". Then add links for those into your masterpage. Put your theme specific styles, images, etc. into theme directories and set the theme as you would normally. The shared CSS should be included since they are referenced in your masterpage. I also think you could use runat="server" in your <link> tag, allowing you to use the "~/.." style path to ensure that the path works on any page, even those in sub directories. The only issue you might have is your stylesheets being referenced out of order. depending on how much you rely on the cascading part of CSS, order may or may not be an issue for you.

Hope this helps.

Andrew L. Van Slaars

vanslaars.net

	Amanda Wang - M
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Re: Theming with multiple CSS files some hard coded some changed programmatically

3/5/2008 8:59:57 AM

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Hi,

If you want to change the theme programmatically, you should change it in the content page's preinit event.

If you have so many page, you can try to create a basepage class that inherits from System.Web.UI.Page and override the OnPreInit event, setting the Theme there. You can then add the following to the web.config: <pages basePageType="MyBasePage" />

The page's will inherit from the new base page , and where the PreInit will run and set the theme automatically .

Hope it helps.

Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

Yours sincerely,
Amanda Wang
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