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PostPosted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:50 am    Post subject: How to purify your Smarty Template (HTML)? Reply with quote

If you follow these simple ideas, you can make a good HTML template that is at least fully css based. Kick off each of these words below, in your template file, if are used as HTML tags/attributes.

  • border
  • font
  • color
  • style
  • width
  • height
  • align

These are the basic HTML tags or attributes that are likely to be in the template file. They are often written as inline css or layout controllers. If you remove these tags/attributes from your template file (*.tpl), you are sure; you control the layout using css only. And use <link> tag to import a css file into your template.

For example:
Code:
<link href="css/ecommerce.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Plus, if you are using a visual editor, like Dreamweaver, there can be a little trouble to maintain ONE copy of css file within your template_c/css folder and main /css folder.

You can avoid this by writing a one-line code within the template/_c/*.css as:
Code:
@import url('../../css/ecommerce.css');

Here would be your simple directory structure:

css/ecommerce.css
template_c/css/ecommere.css (Imports main css file only, and does not have its own css body)
template_c/*.tpl (relatively uses template_c/css/*.css,which in turn use the css in production (/css/*.css)

When in the production mode, the css files within template_c/css are never utilized. They are just for your visual editors only.
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