Determining the Display of Search Results
You have three options for determining the display of the search results.
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Order of Precedence |
Option |
Control over Styling |
Control over Element Placement |
Difficulty Level for Novices |
More Information |
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1 |
websearch.ekml file |
limited |
excellent |
low |
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2 |
XSLT |
excellent |
excellent |
high |
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3 |
Style Sheet |
excellent |
not available |
medium |
You can only use one option to determine the search results display. The options appear in the table above in order of precedence.
That is, if an .ekml file is defined, the other two properties are ignored. If no .ekml file is defined, then an XSLT can determine the display. Finally, if neither an ekml file nor a display xslt is defined, a style sheet is used. If you do not specify a style sheet in the Stylesheet property, the default one is used (siteroot\Workarea\csslib\search.css).
Using a Style Sheet
Style Sheets let you customize visual elements such as color, alignment, font, and size. Ektron CMS400.NET’s search results style sheet has been carefully crafted to give you precise control of even the smallest elements of the page. For more information on working with style sheets, visit http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/.
You can create your own style sheet or modify the default one, siteroot\Workarea\csslib\search.css.
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Best Practice Ektron recommends copying and renaming the default style sheet. Then, enter the new one into the Web Search server control’s Stylesheet property. This insures you always have a clean file to start with and gives you something to reference if you are not getting expected results. |
The style sheet must reside underneath the site root.
You can only define one Search style sheet for each Web page. If you place more than one Web Search server control on a page, they share a style sheet.
