CSS in templates in MX

In previous versions of DW I put links to CSS files within a template and
that worked with no problem. I'm discovering that in MX either:

1. If I put the link in an editable region it's gone when I look in a file
created by that template, or
2. If I put the link in a non-editable region, it appears and works within
the browser but DW doesn't see it when I look (from within DW) at a file
created with that template and DW insists there are no CSS styles defined.

Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing, is this an "improvement" that
I don't understand, or what?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.


JonS

OK, that explains why adding the link after the fact didn't work -- makes
sense too.

But no, the CSS file is not in the Templates folder, it's in the root folder
and has always been, so that still leaves the question of why DW doesn't see
it although the browsers do.

JonS


"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote

Jon:

1. If I put the link in an editable region it's gone when I look in a
file
created by that template, or

Changes to editable regions of Template pages are not propagated to
existing
child pages, but will appear in child pages spawned after making those
changes. This is one of the prime directives of Templates. It has always
been that way.

2. If I put the link in a non-editable region, it appears and works
within
the browser but DW doesn't see it when I look (from within DW) at a file
created with that template and DW insists there are no CSS styles
defined.

If the CSS file is *within* the Templates folder then this is a) a frank
operator error, and b) a good way to get broken links like you describe.
There should be nothing in the Templates folder except for the Templates
files.

DW insists there are no CSS styles defined.

If I have a stylesheet that contains only redefined tags, e.g.,

style
!--
td, tr, p, ul, li, input, select { .... }
--
/style>,

then DW will insist that there are no styles. And, it'd be right, too.

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"JonS" <jspencerNOSPAM (AT) cyberartisans (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:beug6r$cie$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
In previous versions of DW I put links to CSS files within a template
and
that worked with no problem. I'm discovering that in MX either:

1. If I put the link in an editable region it's gone when I look in a
file
created by that template, or
2. If I put the link in a non-editable region, it appears and works
within
the browser but DW doesn't see it when I look (from within DW) at a file
created with that template and DW insists there are no CSS styles
defined.

Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing, is this an "improvement"
that
I don't understand, or what?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.


JonS

url to a page that has this problem?

http://www.cyberartisans.com/cdmp/index.htm

The link is there (and works) in this page -- my problem is that when I look
at this page in DW, it doesn't see the link to the style sheet. The only
file in the Templates folder is the template. The .css file is in the root
folder.

JonS


"Alan Ames" <blu (AT) formdude (DOT) com> wrote

url to a page that has this problem?

guessing- is the external.css file inside the Templates folder?
If so- move it outside the Templates folder.

DMX is much more fussy about only dw templates being in the Templates
folder- no images, no js files, no css files, no subfolders in the
Templates or Library folders.

In previous versions of DW I put links to CSS files within a template
and
that worked with no problem. I'm discovering that in MX either:

1. If I put the link in an editable region it's gone when I look in a
file
created by that template, or
2. If I put the link in a non-editable region, it appears and works
within
the browser but DW doesn't see it when I look (from within DW) at a file
created with that template and DW insists there are no CSS styles
defined.

Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing, is this an "improvement"
that
I don't understand, or what?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.


JonS



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