History: Upgrading

To help update custom theme files from one Tiki version to the next, this page lists changes in the theme stylesheet and in typical theme-specific Smarty template (.tpl) files.

Tiki 4 to Tiki 5 Theme file changes

CSS

Double quotes added for input[type="reset"], etc.

Secondary site menu styling added, for example

#secondary_site_menu
#secondary_site_menu .cssmenu_horiz ul
#secondary_site_menu .cssmenu_horiz ul ul
#secondary_site_menu .cssmenu_horiz ul li a
#secondary_site_menu .cssmenu_horiz li a
#secondary_site_menu .cssmenu_horiz li.menuSection a
#secondary_site_menu .cssmenu_horiz li ul li a .sf-sub-indicator

Site header login popup introduced

#siteloginbar_popup

Tab styling changed in many themes

/* reset what's in layout.css */
.tabactive, .tabinactive, class.tabactive, class.tabinactive {top: 0 !important}
.tabs
.tabs br
.tabs span
.tabmark
.tabmark a
.tabactive
.tabmark a:hover, .tabactive
.tabcontent

Fancytable

/* fancytable (sortable) plugin */ .fancysort .header:hover {color: f0f0f0;}

Misc. (things found to have been changed in two or more themes

.rbox-title {border-bottom: none !important;}

Template (.tpl) files

Site header wrapper method introduced

tiki-site_header_top.tpl(for example)

Tiki 5 to Tiki 6 Theme file changes

CSS

Blog revamp (template wrapper method introduced)

It's now easier to give a theme a different blog page layout. There is a blog wrapper template file that contains include statements each of which loads a part of the blog page, so these statements can be reordered (and/or minimal HTML, etc. put between them) to create a unique display.

• Sharethis icon added to blog post icons

Miscalleneous

• #fixedwith has moved to styles/layout/layout.css
• Element names removed in layout.css, design.css and theme stylesheets
• Class of wysiwyg editor textarea changed (along with fckeditor to ckeditor)

body.wikitext -> body.cke_show_borders (needed for some themes to have good contrast)
Where possible (actually in almost all cases) selectors like div.sioptions were changed to .sioptions, because there were no eg. span.sioptions or ul.sioptions. This reduces problems in theme stylesheets where previously .sioptions would possibly not be able to override layout.css's div.sioptions due to the latter's greater specificity. In other words, in most cases, theme stylesheets don't need to use the element name any more, but just the id or class name.

Template (.tpl) files

Blog revamp (template wrapper method introduced)

Tiki 6 to Tiki 7 Theme file changes

CSS

• There is no longer a single div constrained to the fixed-width size when Fixed-width is activated. Instead, #header_fixedwidth, #middle, and .footerbgtrap are individually given the fixed-width size (selector names subject to change before Tiki 7 release). This is to accomodate designs like Fivealive where header and footer backgrounds are full-width, etc.

Site header

• #header is now full width - #header_fixedwidth inside it is now fixed width
• #header_fixedwidth is now (mostly) equivalent to #header-top
  See Fivealive for how to layer four header bg images (esp. for case of header background that is full page width, with header content being fixed width).
• #siteloginbar is now a class (.siteloginbar) as it's possible to add modules more than once
• These divs are now obsolete:
  • #header-top
  • #siteheader
  • #sioptions
  • #sitead (This id is no longer in the .tpl file but its CSS rules could be used as a possible reference for banner module CSS.)　
  • #sitead.floatright
  • #sitead.floatleft

Footer

1. footer is now full width - .footerbgtrap is now the fixed width area (c/should be renamed?).

   
   

Template (.tpl) files

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