v9 and css

[leehack]

Why not cut through all this confusion and get back to basics.

Take all the css you need from the two files you have and paste it all into actinic.css from within Actinic. Then make sure your layout only references the actinic.css file. Backup and remove any css files you have that are in the Site1 and Preview folders.

Refresh the site and then only make future CSS changes within Actinic.

Because we must have -styles added to the name, have you not been reading for heavens sake ?

[Duncan Rounding]

All this for a dotted line?!

[Rich Brady]

All this for a dotted line?!

And red text remember...

[cyberscape]

If you take a look at the earlier post there was 1247 lines in the new file and being a newbie to actinic there's me thinking the Help Menu might be actually be helpful but apparently its telling me a pack of useless information

I have now merged the two css files into one and I am now just checking for any duplication in firebug

[cyberscape]

Still getting bugs in Actinic's css

I have put everything into one actinic.css file which is link to every page and the dotted line and red text is now fixed!!
When I have come to edit the cart pages the table headers are dark blue and had dark blue text, so I changed it to white which showed up on the preview and when I published, guess what it has wiped the white text out of the css file for cartheading.

This is now in a single actininc.css file in the site1 folder where there is nothing else to confuse it with. What is happening?

I also remember why I also had two css files before. When you click for more information on a product you get a pop-up window but that window gets the same background-image as the main page. How do you edit the pop-up windows to either edit the css file or put a <div> into the code to hide the image?

[cyberscape]

I have got round the white text by editing the css file in DW then uploading it manually.
BTW the url is:
http://sub.daleair.com/acatalog/Dispensers.html

[Duncan Rounding]

You shouldn't have (nor need) an actinic.css file in your Site1 folder. Actinic maintains this file inside Actinic and only generates a copy into the PreviewHTML folders when required to preview.

As I mentioned earlier you should've copied all your css into the actinic.css file *from within Actinic* in the Design View, not into a file in the Site1 folder.

[Chunkford]

In design view, there is a drop down box at the top called "select Page Type".
In there is an option for the style sheet called "Actinic Stylesheet".
Select that and you will see all the css used by actinic.
That's the file to use.

[cyberscape]

I can see the css code in the 'Select Page Type' drop down list and but I can't change it, I can only change it when I click on the Actinic Style sheet button to the right of the Select Page Type and that is the one that is not saving the information.
If the information is within Actinic how do you tell it you want text to be be a certain colour?
And how do I get into the pop-up window to alter the background image?

[Duncan Rounding]

Sorry but I'm getting more confused. Surely you must be doing something wrong.

You can select via the drop down and edit as per my image or you can click the button and edit in the pop up window and then (in both cases) click Apply. Then click onto another page and back again and you should see the change.

How do you know it's not saving the information? (You mentioned earlier it is working in preview)
Have you checked that you are only referencing one style sheet in your outer layouts?
presumably you are not uploading an actinic.css file via the additional files list?

[cyberscape]

OK I was stupid, I was only viewing the css in the drop down part in preview only not split - that's why I couldn't edit it - duh! right got it now.

When I said it wasn't working, I meant once I had tried to publish it. It had previewed OK, but once uploaded it didn't show and when you went back to the css file the changes has disappeared.

I've changed it in the main drop down and it worked first time! YEAH!!
Strange it does it in one style sheet window but not the other...??

Because the design is a customised one the background just has the basic font and colour stuff plus the image url and the repeat-x. How do I change this for the pop-up windows, please..

[Duncan Rounding]

On the product go to the Extended Information tab and click preview next to the Product - Extended Info Page Design then change to the Layout Code pane at the bottom and you will see the code. make sure you are referencing the stylesheet there.

[cyberscape]

I have added a div to the pop-up windows and created a background image to replace the main one. All show up fine on the preview.

When I upload the pop-up windows they show the code OK but the actinic.css has not carried over the div code and when I check the css file the new div has gone missing.
I applied the changes and there were no errors when publishing so I don't see what is going wrong.

[cyberscape]

It managed to publish after five attempts of doing exactly the same thing just paste the code in again, applying, OK, then publish.
But it is working now
Thanks for your help and patience with a newbie