Format define pages

[babychat]

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a and am trying to set up define page 2 and 3.

I have most of the formating right but I can't get a margin at the beginning or end of the line. The format I used on the main page isn't working on page 2 and 3 (FAQ and Testimonials)

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
.indented
{
padding-left: 150pt;
padding-right: 200pt;
}
-->
</STYLE>

I don't know very much about html and this was something I copied and pasted from the web but it seems to work, just not on the other pages.

My site is www.babychat.com.au

Any ideas??

Tracey

[byoriginaldesign]

Design what you want it to look like in a html table, and copy and paste the code in the codeview side of the define pages editor.

[stevesh]

I'd recommend you wrap it a <div> with its own id, and style it in your template's stylesheet. Much neater than injecting stying in every file. I'd also use px or em rather than pt.

[babychat]

Thank you both for your input.

I'd recommend you wrap it a <div> with its own id, and style it in your template's stylesheet. Much neater than injecting stying in every file. I'd also use px or em rather than pt.

I am very new to all this and I don't know what this means. Could you explain it any further?

Thanks,

Tracey

[stevesh]

There are a lot of really good CSS tutorials on the Web, but this particular case would work like this:

Say you have a few blocks of text on your main page that you want to have different left margins, say 25px, 50px and 75px. Rather than going though the whole <style>, etc. thing for each block, you would just do the following:

<div id="firstblock">The first block of text </div>

<div id="secondblock">The second block of text </div>

<div id="thirdblock">The third block of text </div>

Then, in your template's stylesheet.css, you would add:

#firstblock {margin-left:25px;}

#secondblock {margin-left:50px}

#thirdblock {margin-left:75px;}

This also allows you to assign the same id to future blocks which you want to have the same margin.

Don't let this stuff intimidate you - it's pretty easy one you grasp the concept, and, well, I can do it, so almost anybody should be able to .

[babychat]

Thanks for that Stevsh.

It worked perfectly!