Apply Sharepoint Theme to an aspx page in _layouts folder

[theprowler]

Hi all,
i've developed an external aspx page and i've put it in _layouts folder to make it visible to sharepoint.

But, how can i tell sharepoint i want to use its current theme? Or simply its current styles?

I guess i have to make some CSS imports in my page but how?

Thanks in advance!

Massimo

 

[ChaserNL]

Well thema's are tricky.. I would apply the theme in Frontpage 2003 see:

http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/wss/articles/themes-custom2.htm

Greetings

 

[theprowler]

Thanks for your reply but applying theme in frontpage i think has limitations...

Imagine that a user wants to change theme to site... I'd like to see that theme changed also in mine external aspx page.

So i guess i have to import some CSS files in that page, but how CSS?

Massimo

 

[ChaserNL]

The frontpage theme does also affects the extrnal pages.

But you could replace one of the existing theme's...

 

[theprowler]

I'm sorry, i was not explained:
i imagine an user who changes theme site not with frontpage but with "site Settings" --> "Apply theme to site"

You think is possible to dinamically change theme to mine aspx page in that way?

Cheers

Massimo

 

[ChaserNL]

Oke that can be done its a bit of work though. First of all a theme is applyed for all users so its as if everyone can apply his/her own theme.

So how do you procede

Add you new theme to the SPTHEMES.XML located in:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\<lcid>

And make a theme in this folder:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\THEMES

Because its a lot of work editing each file there was some talk about extracting the ELM files (Frontpage themes)
For more about this read the discussion at:

http://groups.google.nl/groups?hl=n...c.75916%24NR5.54594%40fe1.texas.rr.com&rnum=8

(Copy paste full URL)
Thats what i call an URL

Greetings

 

[ChaserNL]

that last url was wrong u need this one:

http://groups.google.nl/groups?hl=n...lm=ySPnc.75916%24NR5.54594%40fe1.texas.rr.com

 

[ChaserNL]

For some reason the & in the url gets replaced with &amp; . So you need to change this (x2)