I've found two things that are immensely helpful from this thread: an off list tip about not having an autohandler for css and that components are not well formed documents, but should 'view source' in the browser as a well formed source. I was able to get things back into the shape that I'd started from within about ten minutes of starting this morning.
>Make sure that your style sheets are not loading your >autohandler. It causes >problems within IE for parsing the css. > >at the bottom of the style sheet I placed ><%flags> > inherit => undef > </%flags> Thanks all! Jimbus > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pascal Fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Mason] newbie question2: Does Mason play nicely with CSS > positioning? > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 02:07:15 +0100 > > > Hi Jim, > > Mason is pretty orthogonal to CSS, so your approach should work. What you > should check is if the HTML source your browser gets is what you (and your > CSS file) expect. In the process of splitting it into header/menu/footer, you > may have forgotten a DIV here or another tag there. Your HTML should be as > close as possible to what you had before using Mason, on the *browser-side*. > > BTW, is the double <title> tag in the <head> section a wanted feature? > > --pascal > > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:36, Jim Babcock told us: > > Hopefully I'm not annoying anyone yet... > > > > I took a plain HTML page layout that I built in logical chunks and > > postioned using CSS position:absolute. It basically had a header across the > > top with a logo, title and search field in the l, c and r postions; a menu > > that went 100% wide below it; empty space for content; then a footer 80% > > down from the top. > > > > I added mason to the server and broke the page into header.html, menu.html, > > footer.html and called them all from autohandler. Now things are all mushed > > together. the fonts and sizes and centers are right, so I know I'm hitting > > the css sheet correctly... > > > > The autohandler is below: > > > > Jimbus > > > > <html> > > <head> > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/resources/css/index.css" /> > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/resources/css/menu.css" /> > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/resources/css/header.css" /> > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/resources/css/footer.css" /> > > > > <script type="text/javascript" src="/resources/js/menu.js"></script> > > > > <title>NEOps: </title> > > <title>NEOps: <& SELF:title &></title> > > </head> > > > > <body> > > <& header.html, %ARGS &> > > <& menu.html, %ARGS &> > > > > % $m->call_next; > > > > <& footer.html &> > > > > </body> > > </html> > > > > <%method title> Network Engineering and Operations </%method> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Mason-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users > -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
