Problem using Template Parameter

#1

I'm trying to use a template parameter to control page layout. I have one css
sheet for a 2-col layout and another for a 3-col layout. My template has the
following code:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/v4.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="@@(screen_css)@@" type="text/css" media="screen"
/>

</head>

and a page based on my template has this code:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/v4.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/screen_3col.css" type="text/css"
media="screen" />

</head>

Notice that the first href has resolved correctly, (i.e. "../css/v4.css" is
replaced by "css/v4.css" since the page is located on level above the template
directory), but the second href does not get resolved, so the desired layout
does not get applied.

Strangely, if I create a nested template off of the base template, this
process seems to work correctly.

Can anyone provide insight on this?

Thanks,
Ron

#2

Yes. Make the reference to the screenstylesheet into a root relative one.
Instead of this -

value="../css/screen_3col.css" -->

have this -

value="/css/screen_3col.css" -->

and see what happens.

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"ronsf" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

I'm trying to use a template parameter to control page layout. I have
one css
sheet for a 2-col layout and another for a 3-col layout. My template has
the
following code:

head
link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/v4.css" type="text/css"
media="screen" /
link rel="stylesheet" href="@@(screen_css)@@" type="text/css"
media="screen"
/
!-- TemplateParam name="screen_css" type="text"
value="../css/screen_3col.css" --
/head

and a page based on my template has this code:

head
link rel="stylesheet" href="css/v4.css" type="text/css" media="screen"
/
link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/screen_3col.css" type="text/css"
media="screen" /
!-- InstanceParam name="screen_css" type="text"
value="../css/screen_3col.css" --
/head

Notice that the first href has resolved correctly, (i.e. "../css/v4.css"
is
replaced by "css/v4.css" since the page is located on level above the
template
directory), but the second href does not get resolved, so the desired
layout
does not get applied.

Strangely, if I create a nested template off of the base template, this
process seems to work correctly.

Can anyone provide insight on this?

Thanks,
Ron

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