Using an IPB template

Invision Power Board template, css, skin, theme, rollover

[Master At Work]

header with fully functioning rollover buttons...

my question is: is this going to be easy to implement as an Invision Power Board skin/theme/template? INCLUDING especially with the rollover buttons working - will I have to figure out a way to use CSS instead of JavaScript here?

thanks.

ED

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[Master At Work]

ok I'll try... how do I implement an HTML template with embedded tables and active JavaScript rollovers into say predominantly CSS driven [Invision Power Board] "skin"?

[tedster]

It's probably going to involve taking the code apart just a bit to zero in on where the issues might lie.

When you say it's CSS driven, do you mean it uses divs? Or that you already have a large amount of CSS?

You definitely can combine divs and CSS. But we wary of conflicting rules - on widths and floats and things like that.

If there's a large amount of css, I would place it in an external .css file and call that file from the template header. Then make sure that any template you create includes the correct IDs and classes.

[tedster]

INCLUDING especially with the rollover buttons working - will I have to figure out a way to use CSS instead of JavaScript here?

Although I do think a CSS hover behavior is better than javascript rollovers, there should not be any inherent reason you cannot stay with the js. Again, if it's a lot of script, place the functions in an external file and call it from the head of the template.

Calling big chunks of code from the head - js and css - will speed up the board because after the first page is downloaded the script is cached on the local machine and will not take up download time for future pages.