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Adding CSS - Almost working. Please help!!

Thread began 10/18/2010 8:30 pm by info72555 | Last modified 10/19/2010 1:48 pm by Dani Chankhour | 1354 views | 5 replies |

10/18/2010 8:30 pm  |  #1 info72555

Adding CSS - Almost working. Please help!!

I am not a programmer, do not own HTML Editor or iRite and thought purchasing this solution would be a great add-on. I have little hair as it is but I am losing more as I try to figure out how to add CSS styles to pages. Some people have it figured out and that makes me wonder if I am not as smart as I thought. Here's my dilemma:

I have updated the "cms_styles" CSS, "insert" and "update" files as suggested. I was thrilled to see the styles show up in the drop down menu and even happier when I was able to apply them to the text. I almost started to cry when I hit Update and all the styles were gone, except for "Red Title" that's set up in the fckconfig file. Why do all the styles disappear in the preview when I save the changes? They don't show up in the PHP file that includes the Developer Notes either. I thought it may have something to do with the "update" page but I have not idea... :-(

I hope I am not the only person who is banging his head against the screen trying to figure this out. Please help!!!!

Thank you in advance :-)

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10/19/2010 11:55 am  |  #2 Dani Chankhour

You will need to include the cms_style.css file to the page in order for the styles to show.

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10/19/2010 12:12 pm  |  #3 info72555

What am I missing?

Your documentation suggests the CSS is already linked to the "contents_insert_ContentValue1.js" and "contents_update_ContentValue1.js". Are these the pages you are referring to?

The lines that already exist in your files (insert & update):
FCKConfig.EditorAreaCSS = '../../css/cms_styles.css';

The styles I tried to add show fine in the editor and actually format the text as desired in the preview window. However, when I click Update, all these styles disappear in the following screen. Do the paths specified for the CSS have anything to do with it? I think the concept for the solution pack is great but I need to be able to offer CSS before a client is interested.

Would you please be specific in your response as to what needs to be done? Is there another link that needs to be created that is not mentioned in your documentation? I believe I checked every post making reference to CMS & CSS and I cannot figure it out :o(

Thanks

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10/19/2010 12:30 pm  |  #4 Dani Chankhour

You will need to link to the cms_style.css file. For example, open the index.php in the admin folder and this line of code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/cms_styles.css"/>

under this line of code:

<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->

so you have:

<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/cms_styles.css"/>


This will include the cms_style.css file on your index page because the cms_style.css is where you have your class definitions. And if you click on the home page of CMS, you should see the styles shown. similarly if you want those styles to show on other pages you will need to add this line of code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/cms_styles.css"/>

to those pages as well.

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10/19/2010 1:21 pm  |  #5 info72555

One last question - I hope!! ;o)

All the tags are showing properly on the pages within the editor but where do I make the reference to the style sheet on the CMS PHP output pages?

I tried to attach the style sheet via Dreamweaver but that did not show up in the CMS page when I looked at the page source. Do I need to add it to the Source in FCK editor? If I do - what would be the line I need to add? Or does the CSS get referenced in the "addtosite.php"?? How?? I am pulling my hair out one at a time!! ;o)

I don't know anything about PHP and was not able to figure out the answer via the forum - I almost feel I am the dumbest member on here!! LOL


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test Page</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
include('/home/dreams/public_www/CMS/Content/WA_CMS/addtosite.php');
echo WA_getCMSContent($database_PowerCMSConnection, $PowerCMSConnection, 'Home', 'Content', false);
?>
</body>
</html>

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10/19/2010 1:48 pm  |  #6 Dani Chankhour

The reference to the style sheet needs to be added to the page where you have the cms code. If you want to see the styles to in the cms admin pages, then you will need to add the reference to those pages as well.

Once you add the reference to the style sheet to the page, and if you are still having an issue, please post with a link to the page or attache the page as an attachment.

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