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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

You're reading from   Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook Over 60 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of Joomla! templates

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511247
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Joomla! Theming Basics 2. Custom Joomla! Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Theming the Details 4. Custom Page Templates 5. Styling Joomla! for Print 6. Joomla! Admin Templates 7. Social Media and Joomla! 8. Styling Joomla! for Mobiles 9. Joomla! and JavaScript 10. Miscellaneous Joomla! Templating Joomla! Output Overrides

Fixing the double-margin bug (in Internet Explorer) in Joomla!


Internet Explorer is a very popular browser, but can often cause headaches for template designers due to its prevalence with the commonly used float-based layouts. A common bug is known as the "double-margin" bug.

Getting ready

We can use conditional comments to create a stylesheet that affects Internet Explorer only by linking a stylesheet within a conditional comment in the<head> element of your template's index.php file:

<!--[if lte IE 7]>
<link href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template ?>/css/ieonly.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

As these bugs affect versions 7 and earlier of Internet Explorer, you can safely target those of the browser only. You need to add this new style into the ieonly.css file in your template's \css directory.

How to do it...

As we saw earlier, there are a number of common bugs in Internet Explorer.

Fixing...

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