Need Help With The Styles (the STYLES!) - Please

So Close - But O' So Far

Here's my story in a nutshell:
I can't, for the life of me, get the styling to work properly (and there is not enough mention of it on these boards - as great as they all are.)

Longer Version...
Everything else is great - Love Chronoforms so far (even with the hiccup) - love the ease and after reading through your forums, can't tell you how impressed i am with 'Greyhead' and 'Admin' for all the support they give. You two guys alone are worth me trying to make this component work before trying something else... so here i go

I recently installed the latest Chronoforms into my Joomla 1.5 site... i am using an Ice-Theme (Breeze).
I am not what you would call a savvy programmer - i'm basically an html guy who got left at he crossroads once all the new languages came out... but i could always make any page look the way i want.

I have a 'decent' knowledge of CSS - i struggle through it, but always seem to get the job done - yes, i can write it all from scratch, edit existing code and what not, but it doesn't exactly come easy to me... I can barely scrape the surface of php and javascript? i can wrap my brain around javascript pretty nicely... but i am, however, a master of table design in html! 🤣

The install went great - the setup and configuration went great - the form wizard is simple to use and quite robust... everything works great!.. i have two upload fields that upload properly - the personalized email comes through beautifully - everybody's happy - no real 'technical' issues anywhere.. everything seems to work awesome!! (except for form validation, but that's another story)

I then coded a custom page for my new Chronoform - in HTML with select CSS styles thrown in (mostly because Ice Theme, it seems, does not handle html coding properly... tags like "valign="top" do not work properly - needs a css command).. either way, the form looks GREAT as a regular html doc... it was created in dreamweaver and me? i'm a firefox guy

... now comes time to drop the code into the backend (admin -> chronoforms -> form management -> form code -> form HTML)... i drop it in and can't wait to see.... i'm hoping i am finished with this final step
but...
... no good

after reading the forums and the faq's and anything else i could find, i made sure i turned off "Load Chronoforms CSS/JS Files?"...
... i added to my already created style sheet(s), but like so mamny other posts i have read, it seems to be getting bumped for chrono styles... somewhere along the line i found a little php snippet to add to the top of my form when placing into the backend

<?php
$doc =& JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->addStylesheet('http://www.canyongearinternational.com/css/jv_styles.css');
?>

-

that didn't work... i tried finding the css codes in the existing css files (style1.css, tooltip.css, calendar.css...etc..)
i'm at the point where i am almost ready to try another plug in - but i really don't want to... i'm too close


here is the actual form i am attempting to add to the backend:
http://www.canyongearinternational.com/catalog/create_your_own6.html


and here is the way this form is laying out:
http://canyongearinternational.com/catalog/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=TESTING



it's obviously JUST a style issue... everything is finished and completed on the backend and really,working PERFECTLY
..if somebody could just help me through this final stage i would be forever grateful.
Let me know if you need more info or anything else that could possibly help you to help me.

Sorry for the lengthy post - hope i made sense🙂 .. and thanks in advance

*** UPDATE ***
It seems this may be an IceTheme AND Firefox issue (?) .. and i'll tell you why i think that.

... i have been sampling some other templates to see how they lay out in those...
... sure enough... internet explorer is displaying my form perfectly - nice and snug in a few different templates - although, firefox is not - and hasn't once... firefox seems to be pushing the images very far right... all the while, looking worst in IceThemes Breeze template.

hmmm..

... any suggestions?
i'm probably going to post over there now just to see what i can find out.. if i hear anything i will fill you in... in the meantime .. let me know if you can think of anything.


**BTW .. the form itself? .. it submitted perfectly and sent the email right away - AND as nicely as had previously been formatted.

Hi jvcreativity,

I'm delighted to say that this isn't a ChronoForms issue - I can't see any trace of the ChronoForms CSS there. Equally, having spent a few minutes doodling around in FireBug I can't see what is causing it :-( all the html looks good and there isn't any obvious css to cause the problem - but there is a lot of css.

Bob

Bittersweet

... so happy to know that it wasn't me all this time ...
... but so BUMMED out to think i may have to switch templates now.
😢

As for the css? ... i don't know where it's coming from either.
i have tried deleting ALL chrono css files on the server in hopes of seeing the form revert to a default state - but i NEVER happen - somehow, it always maintains it's layout - how can that be?

Do you have any knowledge of IceThemes templates and how they work, obviously, differently from everybody else? I know that that's not your responsibility (to know all the different companies), but i figured i'd ask.

I will spend this one last day trying to figure this out (maybe not even all that long) before i have no choice but to redesign a new template.

Thanks Greyhead, for the assurance.

Hi jvcreativity,

Sorry, but I've never even heard of IceThemes. I'll go to take a look now . . .

. . . they look like quite nice templates but a bit pricy to buy one to test.

Bob