nifty corners and bg in extra content panes

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2/8/2011 12:38:31 AM
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nifty corners and bg in extra content panes

Hi guys.  I'm working on a new skin based on the 5 Content Panes skin, but I've discovered something disconcerting; the nifty corners and background color which applies to the sidebar blocks won't work for the extra panes, even though it looks like they're supposed to; on the bottom pane, the top and bottom, rtop and robottom, do display, but the background color won't; with the top pane, there is no rtop or rbottom and no background color; in firebug I can see, grayed out, where it's supposed to appear, but as I said, it's grayed out, so it's not displaying.  I have searched as well as I can, and I have checked to see if this applies to older versions of Mojo or just 2.3.6.1; I also checked to see if the problem shows up in the default, un-edited "5 content panes" skin, and it does, and it also happens in Mojo 2.3.5.8; unfortunately, I can't figure out how to rectify it, to get those .rtop, .rbottom, and the background color displaying in those extra panes.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I wasn't sure about where to post this problem/question; I first thought in the "bugs" forum, but although it might be a bug, it really pertains to a skin rather than to the actual workings of Mojo, so I figured this forum might be more appropriate.

Thx much,

Andria

2/8/2011 8:16:28 AM
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Re: nifty corners and bg in extra content panes

If you look in the style.css for that skin you will see it explicitly hides those in the center and alternate panes. You could edit it, but it is done that way on purpose because of the color scheme in the side columns whereas the center is just white. The design was not intended to have round corners anywhere but the side columns.

 

.altcontent1 .rtop,.altcontent1 .rbottom,.center-leftmargin .rtop,.center-leftmargin .rbottom,.center-rightmargin .rtop,.center-rightmargin .rbottom,.center-nomargins .rtop,.center-nomargins .rbottom,.center-rightandleftmargins .rtop,.center-rightandleftmargins .rbottom,.logolist,.pageicons,.skiplink {
display:none;
}
 
Hope it helps,
 
Joe
2/8/2011 11:17:10 AM
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Re: nifty corners and bg in extra content panes

Yes, thanks Joe, I found it.  I tried to set it up so the altcontent panels have those nifty corners/bg color, but there's a lot of stuff going on with those alternate panels, so I'm settling for just putting a border around the altcontent panelwrappers, to set them off.  I looked at the design on my old 1024x768 monitor, and I think there is just about room to make a double-wide banner area there.  I don't tend to get that slaphappy with banners myself, but since I'm making skins primarily for other peoples' use, I know some sites do like to put up a lot of advertising, or have wide 2-column displays for whatever reason -- those content-template things in the editors will be real handy to deal with a wide expanse like that.  I swear, the more I use Mojo, the more I like it.  yes

Thx!

Andria

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