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STYLE SHEETS

Using Additional Web Page Presets with Yahoo Grid CSS
By: Alejandro Gervasio
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    2007-08-27

    Table of Contents:
  • Using Additional Web Page Presets with Yahoo Grid CSS
  • Working with primary and secondary blocks of a web page
  • Extending the usage of web page presets
  • Completing the use of web page presets

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    Using Additional Web Page Presets with Yahoo Grid CSS - Completing the use of web page presets


    (Page 4 of 4 )

    As I stated in the section that you just read, there are three additional web page presets that need to be analyzed. Below I coded some sample (X)HTML files which use these presets, along with the corresponding browser outputs:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>YUI Grid CSS - Template t5 (secondary block is placed 240px on right)</title>
    <!-- Source File -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"href="yui/build/grids/grids-min.css" />
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="doc"class="yui-t5">
    <div id="hd">
    <!-- header -->
    <h2>This is the header section</h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
    Maecenas sit amet metus. Nunc quam elit, posuere nec, auctor in,
    rhoncus quis, dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Ut dignissim, massa sit
    amet dignissim cursus, quam lacus feugiat dolor, id aliquam leo
    tortor eget odio. Pellentesque orci arcu, eleifend at, iaculis
    sit amet, posuere eu, lorem. Aliquam erat volutpat. Phasellus
    vulputate. Vivamus id erat. Nulla facilisi. Class aptent taciti
    sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos
    hymenaeos. Nunc gravida. Ut euismod, tortor eget convallis
    ullamcorper, arcu odio egestas pede, ut ornare urna elit vitae
    mauris. Aenean ullamcorper eros a lacus. Curabitur egestas tempus
    lectus. Donec et lectus et purus dapibus feugiat. Sed sit amet
    diam. Etiam ipsum leo, facilisis ac, rutrum nec, dignissim quis,
    tellus. Sed eleifend.</p>
    </div>
    <div id="bd">
    <!-- body -->
    <div id="yui-main">
    <div class="yui-b">
    <p>Main Block</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div class="yui-b">
    <p>Secondary Block</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div id="ft">
    <!-- footer -->
    <h2>This is the footer section</h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
    Maecenas sit amet metus. Nunc quam elit, posuere nec, auctor in,
    rhoncus quis, dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Ut dignissim, massa sit
    amet dignissim cursus, quam lacus feugiat dolor, id aliquam leo
    tortor eget odio. Pellentesque orci arcu, eleifend at, iaculis
    sit amet, posuere eu, lorem. Aliquam erat volutpat. Phasellus
    vulputate. Vivamus id erat. Nulla facilisi. Class aptent taciti
    sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos
    hymenaeos. Nunc gravida. Ut euismod, tortor eget convallis
    ullamcorper, arcu odio egestas pede, ut ornare urna elit vitae
    mauris. Aenean ullamcorper eros a lacus. Curabitur egestas tempus
    lectus. Donec et lectus et purus dapibus feugiat. Sed sit amet
    diam. Etiam ipsum leo, facilisis ac, rutrum nec, dignissim quis,
    tellus. Sed eleifend.</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>YUI Grid CSS - Template t6 (secondary block is placed
    300px on right)</title>
    <!-- Source File -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"href="yui/build/grids/grids-min.css" />
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="doc"class="yui-t6">
    <div id="hd">
    <!-- header -->
    <h2>This is the header section</h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
    Maecenas sit amet metus. Nunc quam elit, posuere nec, auctor in,
    rhoncus quis, dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Ut dignissim, massa sit
    amet dignissim cursus, quam lacus feugiat dolor, id aliquam leo
    tortor eget odio. Pellentesque orci arcu, eleifend at, iaculis
    sit amet, posuere eu, lorem. Aliquam erat volutpat. Phasellus
    vulputate. Vivamus id erat. Nulla facilisi. Class aptent taciti
    sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos
    hymenaeos. Nunc gravida. Ut euismod, tortor eget convallis
    ullamcorper, arcu odio egestas pede, ut ornare urna elit vitae
    mauris. Aenean ullamcorper eros a lacus. Curabitur egestas tempus
    lectus. Donec et lectus et purus dapibus feugiat. Sed sit amet
    diam. Etiam ipsum leo, facilisis ac, rutrum nec, dignissim quis,
    tellus. Sed eleifend.</p>
    </div>
    <div id="bd">
    <!-- body -->
    <div id="yui-main">
    <div class="yui-b">
    <p>Main Block</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div class="yui-b">
    <p>Secondary Block</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div id="ft">
    <!-- footer -->
    <h2>This is the footer section</h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
    Maecenas sit amet metus. Nunc quam elit, posuere nec, auctor in,
    rhoncus quis, dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Ut dignissim, massa sit
    amet dignissim cursus, quam lacus feugiat dolor, id aliquam leo
    tortor eget odio. Pellentesque orci arcu, eleifend at, iaculis
    sit amet, posuere eu, lorem. Aliquam erat volutpat. Phasellus
    vulputate. Vivamus id erat. Nulla facilisi. Class aptent taciti
    sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos
    hymenaeos. Nunc gravida. Ut euismod, tortor eget convallis
    ullamcorper, arcu odio egestas pede, ut ornare urna elit vitae
    mauris. Aenean ullamcorper eros a lacus. Curabitur egestas tempus
    lectus. Donec et lectus et purus dapibus feugiat. Sed sit amet
    diam. Etiam ipsum leo, facilisis ac, rutrum nec, dignissim quis,
    tellus. Sed eleifend.</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>YUI Grid CSS - Template t7 (One full-width column)</title>
    <!-- Source File -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui/build/grids/grids-min.css"/>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="doc"class="yui-t7">
    <div id="hd">
    <!-- header -->
    <h2>This is the header section</h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
    Maecenas sit amet metus. Nunc quam elit, posuere nec, auctor in,
    rhoncus quis, dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Ut dignissim, massa sit
    amet dignissim cursus, quam lacus feugiat dolor, id aliquam leo
    tortor eget odio. Pellentesque orci arcu, eleifend at, iaculis
    sit amet, posuere eu, lorem. Aliquam erat volutpat. Phasellus
    vulputate. Vivamus id erat. Nulla facilisi. Class aptent taciti
    sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos
    hymenaeos. Nunc gravida. Ut euismod, tortor eget convallis
    ullamcorper, arcu odio egestas pede, ut ornare urna elit vitae
    mauris. Aenean ullamcorper eros a lacus. Curabitur egestas tempus
    lectus. Donec et lectus et purus dapibus feugiat. Sed sit amet
    diam. Etiam ipsum leo, facilisis ac, rutrum nec, dignissim quis,
    tellus. Sed eleifend.</p>
    </div>
    <div id="bd">
    <!-- body -->
    <div id="yui-main">
    <div class="yui-b">
    <p>Main Block</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div class="yui-b">
    <p>Secondary Block</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div id="ft">
    <!-- footer -->
    <h2>This is the footer section</h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
    Maecenas sit amet metus. Nunc quam elit, posuere nec, auctor in,
    rhoncus quis, dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Ut dignissim, massa sit
    amet dignissim cursus, quam lacus feugiat dolor, id aliquam leo
    tortor eget odio. Pellentesque orci arcu, eleifend at, iaculis
    sit amet, posuere eu, lorem. Aliquam erat volutpat. Phasellus
    vulputate. Vivamus id erat. Nulla facilisi. Class aptent taciti
    sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos
    hymenaeos. Nunc gravida. Ut euismod, tortor eget convallis
    ullamcorper, arcu odio egestas pede, ut ornare urna elit vitae
    mauris. Aenean ullamcorper eros a lacus. Curabitur egestas tempus
    lectus. Donec et lectus et purus dapibus feugiat. Sed sit amet
    diam. Etiam ipsum leo, facilisis ac, rutrum nec, dignissim quis,
    tellus. Sed eleifend.</p>
    </div>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

    Here you have them. The three previous examples demonstrate in a nutshell how to include the remaining presets, called "yui-t5," "yui-t6" and "yui-t7" respectively, into a sample web document to build different kinds of web page layouts.

    At this point I believe that I provided you with enough source code to keep you entertained for some time while acquiring more experience in using the presets bundled with the Yahoo CSS Grid framework. Happy coding!

    Final thoughts

    In this third part of the series, you hopefully learned how to put to work the set of web page presets packaged with the Yahoo Grid CSS framework, so at this point you should have a much clearer idea on the capacities offered by this library.

    However, there are some others features that need to be properly discussed, such as the implementation of nested grids, which allow you to build complicated web page layouts.

    All of these topics will be covered in the final part of the series, so you don't have any excuses to miss it!


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