Here is how I understand Mason (which may be wrong; more experience
people, jump on in):
You shouldn't need all those style sheets, unless you really want them.
One sheet can be used by all your "chunks" because the CSS stuff is used
after Mason has assembled the HTML and delievered it to the client.
So, my autohandlers tend to look like this:
=================
<& header.html &>
<& navigation.html &>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="700">
<tr>
<!-- Main Content -->
<td width="520" valign="top">
% $m->call_next;
</td>
<td width="25"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="25"
height="1"></td>
<!-- Side Bar -->
<td width="155" valign="top">
<& side_bar.html &>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<& footer.html &>
=================
My header contains my opening HTML tags, META tags, stylesheet link,
title, etc. Then, I have a navigation "chunk" that contains only a table
with some images with links.
I start a content table that will be reused on all the pages and do the
call_next method.
Then, there is a side_bar page with just a table and some banners.
Finally, the footer contains copyright info and my closing HTML tags.
Each page of content then created by chaining index files from
subfolders with partial HTML in them with the autohandler and the other
components.
Now, when I edit these components in Dreamweaver individually, I can't
see the styles, so I temporaily link to the stylesheet for editing and
then remove the link later.
Does that help at all?
Jim Babcock wrote:
>
> 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>
>
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