Home Page Generation

[infinium]

I'm new to zen trying to get a feel also. It looks like the style sheets are called from the html_header.php file.

/includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php

If you look, you'll see comments like:

• load all template-specific stylesheets, named like "style*.css", alphabetically
• load stylesheets on a per-page/per-language/per-product/per-manufacturer/per-category basis. Concept by Juxi Zoza.

Hope that helps. Scott

[Kim]

Please do not start a new thread to continue an existing topic. Thanks. Your threads have been merged together.

[gjh42]

The PHP code, when building the HTML output, does a set of lookups and decides which stylesheets to apply to the current page. There is no reason to tinker with this or try to understand the mechanics unless you are a skilled PHP coder. The order and logic of which stylesheets are called is useful to know, and described in forum posts and the wiki, and in /template_default/css/CSS_read_me.

The HTML calls the stylesheets using the <link rel="stylesheet" ... > tag in the head of the output.

After this, there is no need for elements to call a stylesheet; that is automatic by the structure of HTML.

[Website Rob]

Perhaps this question is more difficult to answer than simply providing a file reference. What file or function calls the stylesheet.css file? I looked w/in the index page, but did not find a reference. I'm average on reading .php, so perhaps I overlooked the reference.

I asked this question in a previous post and was replied to with a question as to why I wanted to this information. My request is part of my gaining a better overall understanding of the structure and function of this tool.

Thanks in advance

The Main page content is all incorporated within a Table layout. Zen Cart has not yet reached the point where fluid CSS can be used for the whole layout. That will change in time but for now, one works with CSS for Layout of the Header & Footer and within the Table code for Layout Sideboxes & Main content. The main 'stylesheet.css' applies to all pages.

To best answer your question(s) regarding custom or customizing Templates at this time, I would direct you to the tutorials/FAQ link at the top of this page. Use the keyword 'overrides' to start your search and go from there.

[yellow1912]

I have websites built for ZC that use all pure CSS except certain places where I think table is a better choice (such as the shopping cart page, where I think using table to list products in cart is a better choice). So overall you find 1 table at max on any page.

The conclusion? It's easy to build ZC sites that using css only.

[Website Rob]

yellow1912, you made the same statement in other Thread and I had asked you to provide a URL of a site using that method and a current or fairly current, version of Zen Cart.

Don't believe you replied so I bring it to your attention again. I believe not only I, but others also would be interested in seeing this.

[Kim]

I too would like to see it - Have you done it with no loss of functionality from the Admin?

To the OP- There is only one table in the main template - and it is there to control the side columns without having to resort to a bunch of awful hacks. The only other tables are for tabular data and are built on the fly with the code.