layout boxes margin padding changes to generic template

[steveroot]

I've been creating a style based on the generic templates
for a new site. I could see the following in the html code of the web page:

<ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none;">

This code was overriding my CSS templates. Looking further,
I discovered the following templates have hard coded styles:
sideboxes/tpl_ezpages.php
sideboxes/tpl_information.php
sideboxes/tpl_manufacturer_info.php
sideboxes/tpl_more_information.php
You can find them simply by searching for the hard coded text
eg: <ul style="margin:0

The solution is to remove the hard coded style and replace
it with a suitable stylesheet class call.
EG, change the lines:

$content .= "\n" . '<ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none;">' . "\n";

to

$content .= "\n" . '<ul class="myclassname">' . "\n";

In your stylesheet add:

.myclassname {
     list-style-type:none;
     margin:0;
     padding:0;
    }

I suggest you change myclassname to something suitable.
If you want all side boxes to share the same layout then
you can use once style, otherwise a style for each box
may be neccessary.

I hope this helps saves someone some time and headscratching.

Steve Root
http://www.kinsbury.co.uk
http://www.steveroot.co.uk

[Kim]

Thanks Steve. We'll have a look at that for 1.4