[Typo3] Strategy for page templates... help needed.

[Tyler Kraft]

Amir I just told you!  Go back and read!  It is all to do with the 
content wrapping, which you can adjust and control through your template 
setup, and you can even do it from the tree structure via template > 
template object browser!  Choose what conetnt item you want to chage the 
default wrapping for and the it will not only show you what the wrapping 
is but also if you click on the item name you can then edit the wrapping 
to be whatever you want or need.

DID you even look on the archives???

A search of 'css styled content wrapping' turns up 28 possible threads, 
and several of those deal with what you just said you couldn't find with 
google.

As far as applying padding to your inner area - I would add padding to 
the whole div that holds all the content, and then yes you will have to 
use the box model hack, but you then wouldn't have to worry about 
applying margin or padding to each possible item that goes into that area.

So just at least try look for the answer your self!  I first searched 
for 'css style content' and had +600 possible threads, so I then 
searched for 'css styled content wrapping' and got 28 threads that 
address this topic particularly.  Not a hard search to get at the answer.

http://typo3.org/documentation/mailing-lists/english-main-list-archive/thread/110097041/?tx_maillisttofaq_pi1%5Bsword%5D=css%20styled%20content%20wrapping&tx_maillisttofaq_pi1%5Banswered_only%5D=0&tx_maillisttofaq_pi1%5Bmode%5D=1

The tenth item down in the search and I chose it becasue it vaguely look 
similar to what I (being you) might want to achieve, and there it is, a 
long detailed explanation of what to do followed at the end by a how to!

Its things like this that make us all upset.

Goodnight Amir, I hope tomorrow goes better for you than the last few 
days but I also hope you awake with the idea of not being so damn 
obstinate.

tk

Amir Mualem wrote:
> Tyler Kraft wrote:
> 
>> Ok Amir here is the answer:
>>
>> If it was me I wouldn't use TV for this or FCE.  You have a nice html 
>> template that is well done (I see you sorted out the box model issue) 
>> and the content you want to replace into it is not complex at all, as 
>> its just simple text.
>>
>> I would probably template this the old-fashioned way and insert from 
>> my template the menus (which I believe you've already solved), the 
>> page title, the breadcrumbs as a tmenu (not a hard tmenu to do, again 
>> refer to the tsref as it explains all the properties you need and the 
>> archives for examples), and last but not least the content.  The 
>> content you can just use regular content items for most of this but if 
>> at some point you need a more complex specific content item then 
>> create one with TV or do the old fashioned method of creating a COA 
>> object to do it for you to insert a specific content layout 
>> consistently.  You can then through your template setup and typoscript 
>> manipulate all the content wrapping so that you only get h1 with out 
>> the css_style_content classes for example.  You can also configure the 
>> rte to produce pretty clean text for you.  You can combine the use of 
>> FCE and the standard items as you wish, but I cant see anywhere here 
>> you need to do this.
>>
>> Unfortunately this will probably require you to do a lot of research 
>> and reading of tsref and the archives (lets just not even start with 
>> if you should do this or have to do this).  But the answers are not 
>> hard to find. Ex if you wanted to change the css_styles_content 
>> classes that headers get wrapped with a search for 'change css styled 
>> content classes' or another variation will probably quickly show you 
>> that you need to adjust the TS wrapping, and you can do this in the 
>> template setup or with the template object browser (check the 'enable 
>> object link').  The template object browser will allow you to not only 
>> edit you settings but help you get an idea about how it is structured.
>>
>> So there is my advice,a and there are many ways to do it, but doing it 
>> this way would probably take me a few hours to get up and running.  
>> and I'm not saying that to show off or be cocky, I'm trying to point 
>> out that for all the reading you will do it really does pay off - 
>> often and repeatedly.  Honest I know it takes time but just please try 
>> it. You wouldn't put a new driver into a F1 car would you?  They would 
>> need some experience and training.  This also takes effort and time.
>>
>> hth
>>
>> tk
>>
>> P.S if your not sure about what I mean by the old fashioned way of 
>> templating then contact me off list and I'll explain it and show you 
>> some examples. But if I don't reply for a while then don't get upset, 
>> I'm in the middle of finals and work so a bit busy.
>>
>> Amir Mualem wrote:
>>
>>> As some of you may know, I am making a template for my site.  I am 
>>> using TemplaVoila.  I have recently made a Flexible Content Element 
>>> to wrap all my content.
>>>
>>> Well here is my problem, maybe you guys can give some advice. 
>>> http://www.stratcommandcenter.com/redesign/fileadmin/templates/static2.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> That is how I want most of my pages to look like.  Inside that box is 
>>> where I want content for every page, except the main page, and news 
>>> single view will have some variations,. but all in all, I want my 
>>> content to be like that in that container.
>>>
>>> What would be the best way to go about doing this.  Basically what is 
>>> the best strategy?  I tried flexible content elements and that has 
>>> not been working, since now I cannot use other elements like Table etc..
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> And thanks for the advice... but I have been searching TSref and other 
> docs, google, archives, but I still cant find out a step by step guide 
> on how to change css default style classes...
> 
> My brain is fried...
> 
> -- Btw, I solved the problem with this question, simply change the 
> editing type of the body map in the template objects mapping to Content 
> Elements.