This might be a general question, but I can't seem to figure it out. What are containers in DNN? Skins are essentially a layout plus a colour scheme for the whole portal. So are containers the skin for desktopmodules?
Sorry if this question is novice. I am not confident in DNN yet, and am reading the doco. However i need this answer quite quickly.
Cheers.
Containers allow you to add style and markup to any module independently of the page skin or the particular module.
The layout goes like this:
- Default.aspx
- Skin (.ascx control, either the Portal default or selected on the given tab) - this has panels on it
- Container (.ascx control, this can allow you position some edit buttons and have a configurable wrapper around any module)
- Module (.ascx control, usually coming from /DesktopModules)
I hope this helps, -Eric
Yes, container is like a skin for single module. Using one skin for entire page, and several skins (container skins) for modules you can quicker create expected appearance.
In general this is a simple html snippet with several placeholders.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1042187/dnn-containers