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midlantica

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Go here and check it out:
http://laprimacasa.com/index.php

Ok... see the big kid-like buttons on left? Well, they're in a block as per normal, can i have a plain block there without the surrounding rounded box [block] stuff? IE just plain big buttons? This is the last step to finisjhing this... so close...

Like my blocks?


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Unfortunately, there's no easy way to get rid of the borders.

But if you want to keep the block in that position, you could hard-code it in the theme's leftblocks.thtml template file.

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midlantica

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Thanks for getting back so soon. I understand what you are saying and I'll probably end up editing that leftblocks.html.

But with all the beautiful work you've done (or added to) surely it would be an easy matter to make a blank block to be filled with anything? Or am I missing something obvious? DOes it screw wwith the rest of the sitre or something? The database?

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There is actually another way that should work (haven't tested it, though): As you may now, a theme can use different block templates for the blocks on the left and right.

But the same idea can also be used for individual blocks. So you could use empty block header and footer templates for that particular block.

See one of the themes that have different left and right side blocks for sample code (or the clean theme, which has that code, too, although it's not really needed there).

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ByteEnable

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There is a much easier way.....

Create a file named "functions.php" in your theme subdirectory

Text Formatted Code

<?php
$_BLOCK_TEMPLATE['your_block_name'] = 'your_block_header.thtml,your_block_footer.thtml';
?>

 


Create a file named "your_block_header.thtml"
Text Formatted Code

<!-- START BLOCK -->

<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <tr>
         <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="2">

 


Create a file named "your_block_footer.thtml"
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                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
<br>

<!-- END BLOCK -->

 


Presto! A blank block, except for your code.

Byte
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