Actinic CSS

[a.g.r.c]

So this is my second time round using Actinic.

First time round I was using tables (enough said) and Actinic seemed to handle it fine.

Having learned xhtml and css quite sometime ago now I felt it a smart move to use it in the second Actinic store.

I've built a ton of valid xhtml / css layouts now working fine cross platform.

Well i carried about the everyday routine and built a layout for the store in question. Checked in ie6, checked in ie7 and then checked in a standards browser.

All of which previewed identically. The next step to attach some Actinic content and import over.

No troubles, so all is well up until this point. I configure the web site details and upload.

Why the heck has Actinic decided to change the styles of classes and ids and render a page utterly useless?

fyi, the scenario im giving isnt exactly how it happened, Actinic had caused many problems in between having exported site snap-shots, moved to different machine etc and the snap-shots wouldnt work.

Anyway there has been far too many problems with this attempt, it's rendering valid code useless.

Could someone make any suggestions about how to work with Actinic and the way it handles your css?

I even removed the Actinic.css stylesheet reference leaving only my custom style and it still rendered horribly.

Does it put in uneccesary code?

I have no ideas.

Any help with this would be immense, i have a client waiting for their site who has paid for the software.

I'm almost tempted to write my own cart! All be it lacking a massive amount of functionality.

Thanks

[rant over]

a.g.r.c

[leehack]

Can you run us through where your files are stored and how you go about registering them with actinic and what you use to do so. Many of us do this day in, day out with no problems, so you must be doing something wrong or you have something gone awol with your installation.

[Goz]

Have you used Firebug in Firefox to check which CSS is being applied? Invaluable tool for debugging.

[Bruce]

Another thing you can check is the position of the call to your CSS file, it should be after the Actinic css file.

Kind regards,

[a.g.r.c]

Hey guys,

After spending a fair while in panic mode and almost seriously pissing of the client. I figured it out, dont know what it was. But its silly on Actinics part still.

Actinic removes the doctype that the layout was coded in and replaces it with transitional 4 i think. Thus changing the rendered appearance of the code underneath it immediately.

Simple as that - its where the problem lay all the time.

Of course it would have been fine with tabled layouts, they suck... anyway problem solved.

Cheers again.

a.g.r.c

*edit Also now i remember why i started liking Actinic. (warts and all)