My WebWare editor has a drop-down list of text attributes that can be attached to text in the editor, eg: Paragraph,H1,H2. These should be interpreted by the style-sheet when viewed in a browser, but this doesn't work on my pages. Am I doing this correctly? My pages don't seem to be in touch with the style sheet at all. Am I seeing/editing the correct style sheet?
Also, the editor drop-down list doesn't match the style sheet tags. Is there any way that the drop-down list can reflect what's in the style sheet?
Re: Style sheet questions
Posted on Dec 3, 2007, by Morgan Burke
Make sure of the following:
1. you are publishing your style sheet changes. ExSite preferentially takes the published version of a stylesheet when doing normal page previews. Your browser may also cache the previous stylesheet, so try a hard refresh.
2. your page is using the correct template. Sometimes you will be editing template A, but previewing a page that uses template B.
>Also, the editor drop-down list doesn't match the style sheet tags. Is there any way that the drop-down list can reflect what's in the style sheet?
No, not easily. The content and style are completely separated. Even if it were easy, it would bring its own set of problems--adding stylesheet-specific tags would tie the content to a particular stylesheet, removing the separation of content and design that is a basic design goal of the system.
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Style sheet questions
My WebWare editor has a drop-down list of text attributes that can be attached to text in the editor, eg: Paragraph,H1,H2. These should be interpreted by the style-sheet when viewed in a browser, but this doesn't work on my pages. Am I doing this correctly? My pages don't seem to be in touch with the style sheet at all. Am I seeing/editing the correct style sheet?
Also, the editor drop-down list doesn't match the style sheet tags. Is there any way that the drop-down list can reflect what's in the style sheet?
Re: Style sheet questions
Make sure of the following:
1. you are publishing your style sheet changes. ExSite preferentially takes the published version of a stylesheet when doing normal page previews. Your browser may also cache the previous stylesheet, so try a hard refresh.
2. your page is using the correct template. Sometimes you will be editing template A, but previewing a page that uses template B.
>Also, the editor drop-down list doesn't match the style sheet tags. Is there any way that the drop-down list can reflect what's in the style sheet?
No, not easily. The content and style are completely separated. Even if it were easy, it would bring its own set of problems--adding stylesheet-specific tags would tie the content to a particular stylesheet, removing the separation of content and design that is a basic design goal of the system.