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[jonnyatom5]

Hello there,

I'm having a real head scratcher this Monday morning. I'm trying to format a list of sections down the left hand side of my design as in "clean layouts 3" theme.

It seems that each section name is being put into a seperate table which is messing up my design. The trouble is I can't work out which template is called by NETQUOTEVAR:TOPLEVELSECTIONSTOP which seems to be the piece of code that calls it. I've located the template that creates the text, it's "ActSectionLineSmallText.html" but there's no sign of any tables in there, hence me pulling out some of the little hair I already have.

Can anyone out there please shed any light onto this one?

Regards Garry

[jonnyatom5]

Ok, so a brainwave later and I'm a little further forward.

I noticed that it was the cell padding and/or cell spacing that was throwing everything out and so I located some HTML (an hour later) in
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in there, 9 lines down there's a "Table" tag that I put "cellpadding=0" and "cellspacing=0" that seems to have solved my initial problem. I'm going to investigate what else it affects within the design now.

Hope this helps someone down the line.

Regards Garry

[allen]

Use the PDF's provided with Actinic and downloadable from the actinic.co.uk support area. Their very useful

Allen

[jonnyatom5]

Hiya Allen,

I have scoured the PDF's both the user guide and the advanced, it's the first place I looked, then on this forum and the previous actinic forum and as a last ditch resort posted on here. I still can't get rid of the said tables and have had to "make-do". There's not many designs I'm unable to implement, but this one's just baffled me.

Thanks for the input, if anyone can enlighten me more, it would be much appreciated.

Garry

PS: the working URL is www.hockeyfactoryshop.co.uk

[NormanRouxel]

I think that this is dynamically generated by the Catalog program. You can choose how many sections across to have it thus requires more than a simple template. There probably are some entries in the Design .. HTML area that are used by this code. An easy way of checking a likely one out would be to edit the <TABLE...> tag and add a BORDER=1 bit to it and see where the border turns up when you preview the site.

Norman

[jonnyatom5]

Hiya Norman,

thanks for the input, I'm begining to think you're correct in the assumption that the actinic programme produces the table as I did as you've just suggested (see my second post) and isolated the code it uses in Design..HTML. This worked to an extent and is "OK", I'll just have to accept the limitations of this version I suppose, Actinic's a good out of the box solution, I think I've reached the extent of these limitations.


Roll on the next Version... hopefully with as much design expandability as 6 gave us over 5.

Garry

[allen]

OK. Just re-read your post. I think the answer to your problem is to use the javascripts that can generate the same section lists.

I tend to use these by default as you can use them outside of Actinic.

Allen

[jonnyatom5]

Aha, thanks Allen,

that's one way I'd not thought of to solve the problem. I'll be experimenting !!

It's good to have a forum to bounce ideas around and problem solve, two (or more) heads are better than one as the saying goes.

Thanks again,

Garry