MasterPage.master

kiwibrit · August 17th, 2009, 12:19 PM

I am developing a site based on - but not identical to - the book site. In particular there are no themes or skins, and only one style sheet. For the most part it is going well, until I have come to styling the menus. In the book MasterPage.master a CSS class MainMenu is called up - but I can't find it declared in any style sheet. I am, obviously missing a trick - please advise!

Imar · August 17th, 2009, 12:28 PM

Hi there,

It's defined in the Monochrome.css file that you add to the theme by dragging it from the Resources folder.

Check out Resources\Chapter 06 that comes with the book.

DarkGrey doesn't have this class as it doesn't use a Menu.

Hope this helps,

Imar

kiwibrit · August 17th, 2009, 01:00 PM

Gotcha!. And I have been able to apply further styling as required. I will probably tidy up things further by taking up your suggestion on page 245 about ASP.NET Friendly Control Adapters - once I have the guts of the site sorted out.

But I am still curious, how does the Monochrome style sheet get picked up for rendering in the browser? I am sure you have covered it somewhere - but it has been a lot to take in.

Imar · August 17th, 2009, 01:32 PM

It's located in the Monochrome folder under App_Themes and is loaded by ASP.NET automatically when Monochrome is the active theme. It can be the active theme because you configured it so in web.config or because the user chose Monochrome as the preferred theme.

Refer to pages 214, and 222 and 226 to see how that works.

Cheers,

Imar

kiwibrit · August 17th, 2009, 04:26 PM

OK. Thanks.