Hi Imar
Firstly I don't see the problem in planetwrox.com - so it has to be something in my code
Here is the code from momchrome.css
*
{
/*
Defines the main font used throughout the entire site
*/
font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif;
}
body
{
/*
Clears white space around the body and gives it a dark gray color.
*/
margin: 0;
background-color: #cccccc;
}
a
{
/*
Clears the underline on normal links, and gives them a purple text color.
*/
text-decoration: none;
color: #4628C4;
}
a:hover
{
/*
Underlines links when the user hovers the mouse over them.
*/
text-decoration : underline;
}
h1
{
/*
Makes h1 elements smaller than their browser default.
*/
font-size : 20px;
}
h2
{
/*
Gives h2 elements a different background color and size,
and adds a bit of margin at the top to create room between the heading and the preceding element.
*/
font-size : 14px;
color : #7773A1;
margin-top : 10px;
}
#PageWrapper
{
/*
Sets the total width for the entire page. Also sets the background-color
which is used to fill the background of the Sidebar in case the MainContent block is taller than the Sidebar.
Uses margin: auto to center the entire page in the middle of the browser's window.
*/
width: 844px;
background-color: #7773A1;
margin: auto;
}
#Header
{
/*
Gives the header the same width as the PageWrapper. The height creates some room for the logo
that is set with the background-image.
*/
background-image: url(Images/Header.jpg);
width: 844px;
height: 86px;
}
#Header a
{
/*
The #Header a is a link nested in #Header. It provides a link back to the homepage.
The size of the link is the same as the header, so the entire header is clickable.
*/
width: 844px;
height: 86px;
display: block;
}
#MenuWrapper
{
/*
The menu spans the page width, right below the header.
At the top and left a few pixels padding is applied to create some room.
*/
background-image: url(Images/MenuBackground.jpg);
/* I put this in to stop the image repeating over the right hand edge */
background-repeat: no-repeat;
width: 827px;
height: 36px;
padding-top: 7px;
padding-left: 17px;
}
#MenuWrapper a
{
/*
Links in the Menu are white. This gets overriden by styles in chapter 7.
*/
color: #fff;
}
.MainMenu
{
/*
The Menu gets a white border on all four sides.
*/
border: 1px solid white;
width: 814px;
height: 19px;
background-color : #cccccc;
}
.MainMenu ul li
{
/*
Gives the four menu items in the main menu a width of 200px each
*/
width: 200px;
}
#MainContent
{
/*
Defines the main content area. The #MainContent element has a minimum height of 500 pixels, but can grow if necessary.
The font-size is 80% of its parent element, which in this case comes down to 80% of the font
the user has specified as the default font in the browser.
*/
font-size: 0.8em;
width: 659px;
border-left: 1px solid white;
border-right: 2px solid white;
float: left;
background-color: #e1e1e1;
min-height: 500px;
padding: 10px;
}
#Sidebar
{
/*
The Sidebar is positioned to the right of the MainContent area. It gets the same font-size as #MainContent
and gets a background image called Sidebar.jpg. To ensure the image is visible in (most) browsers
on a small page, the element gets a minimum height of 500px. This is ignored by IE 6.
*/
font-size: 0.8em;
color: White;
background-image: url(Images/Sidebar.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: #7773A1;
/*
The width setting in the original file was 142px, which stopped the sidebar from floating
*/
width: 137px;
min-height: 500px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 20px;
float: left;
}
#Footer
{
/*
The footer is positioned below all other content (yet still within PageWrapper).
clear: both is used to clear the impact of the float properties used for #MainContent and #Sidebar.
*/
width: 844px;
clear: both;
height: 37px;
background-color : #BCD1FE;
color: White;
text-align: center;
font-size: 0.7em;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 37px;
}
.Introduction
{
font-style: italic;
color: #3e3e3e;
}
..and the code from the Master Page
<%@ Master Language="
VB" CodeFile="FrontEnd.master.
vb" Inherits="MasterPages_FrontEnd" %>
<!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">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="head" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id = "PageWrapper">
<div id = "Header">
<a href= "~/" runat="server"></a>
</div>
<div id="MenuWrapper">Menu Goes Here</div>
<div id = "MainContent">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="cpMainContent" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
<div id = "Sidebar">Sidebar goes here</div>
<div id = "Footer">Footer goes here</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
..and the rendered HTML from default.aspx
<!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">
<head><link href="App_Themes/Monochrome/Monochrome.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link href="App_Themes/Monochrome/Monochrome_bak.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><title>
Planet Wrox
</title>
<link href="App_Themes/Monochrome/Monochrome.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link href="App_Themes/Monochrome/Monochrome_bak.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /></head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="Default.aspx" id="form1">
<div class="aspNetHidden">
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUKMTY1NDU2MTA1MmRkd+tBS/sHseTAHY4/8YrhopamE4/w+B8QsIiY6I/DzSc=" />
</div>
<div id = "PageWrapper">
<div id = "Header">
<a href="./"></a>
</div>
<div id="MenuWrapper">Menu Goes Here</div>
<div id = "MainContent">
<h1 class="Introduction">
Hi there Visitor and Welcome To Planet Wrox</h1>
<p>
<span class="Introduction">We're glad that you're paying a visit to
<a href="
http://Default.aspx">look around</a>. There are loads of pictures and review
available to download for free from the site.</span></p>
<p>
You can login <a href="Login.aspx">here</a></p>
</div>
<div id = "Sidebar">Sidebar goes here</div>
<div id = "Footer">Footer goes here</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Many thanks
Rodger
PS Great book by the way
!
Chapter 6: Monochrome Theme does not work correctly in my browsers
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. I seem to be having a similar issue, except that it is occurring with my DarkGrey theme versus the Monochrome.
