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

Sun May 8 16:02:09 CEST 2005

Now that is very well stated in tsref (near the beginign of the oage 
properties) on how to change that.

check it out, as there are a few diff optionns as to what you can output.

Amir Mualem wrote:
> Tyler Kraft wrote:
> 
>> Maybe try to compare the source from a typo3 page and your template, 
>> and then you might find lots of little things that need to be altered 
>> via the TSob.
>>
>> If you have a look at it on IE on a mac it is really really out.  On 
>> the other browsers I looked at it was just little things.  It might be 
>> some whitespace issues?
>>
>> good luck
>>
>> later
>>
>> tk
>>
>>
>>
>> Amir Mualem wrote:
>>
>>> Tyler Kraft wrote:
>>>
>>>> NO REALLY AMIR - THANK YOU!!!   ;-)
>>>>
>>>> genius, brilliant, great, superb...
>>>>
>>>> This is ultimately what I have been trying to get through to you, 
>>>> sometimes very bluntly.  The direction I pointed you in was the 
>>>> TSob, which you tried to find out yourself and then asked a 
>>>> researched question about! A question that you asked and got a very 
>>>> good answer from, but at the cost of some time invested by yourself. 
>>>> Christopher's answer is right on the money but you only got that 
>>>> because we knew what you were struggling with and knew here you had 
>>>> already looked.  I know that all the documentation is scattered and 
>>>> disorganised but really tsref is the key to almost the whole thing - 
>>>> it holds all the details about the key TS properties and will become 
>>>> very useful.
>>>>
>>>> All you have to do, to me at least (I hesitate to us all), is prove 
>>>> that you looked for an answer and help us to know what your getting 
>>>> hung up on and we'll help if we can. And I think most people here 
>>>> feel the same.
>>>>
>>>> As for your brain... take a day off, cause trying to wrap your mind 
>>>> around T3 at the beginning tends to hurt often. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> So problem solved for now.  Like Matthi said - cool.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> btw not as a critisim but as a helpful informant, you still have 
>>>> some layout issues with your css (they vary for all the different 
>>>> browsers - IE, opera, netscape, Firefox, IEmac)  On safari and 
>>>> firefox on mac it looks great!  If you solve your css problems I 
>>>> think you'll find you've got a nice looking site. hth
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Gotcha. ;)
>>>
>>> About the CSS... for some reason the CSS got screwy in IE only AFTER 
>>> I put it in Templavoila/Typo3 because the HTML template looks 
>>> perfectly fine in all browsers.  Not sure, I plan to look into that 
>>> later.  Thanks for reinforcing the issue :).
>>>
>>> Thank you to anyone who helped.  Let this thread RIP now.
> 
> 
> Well I found one distinct difference between the two which is the header...
> 
> The HTML was made in XHTML when I was coding it.. but the header in 
> typo3 makes it HTML so there might be a fault there when doing that. 
> Look at the header which is in the HTML template:
> 
> "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">"
> 
> Now look at the one that is made by typo3:
> 
> "<!DOCTYPE html
>     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <html>"
> 
> I think that is the problem.