 DW MX issue: CSSs no longer attach to pages -
06-10-2008
, 04:21 PM
Hi,
I'm running DW MX on a Windows XP, SP2 box. I'm using DW to create online Help
files, so I can't provide a URL; hopefully the following description will
suffice.
Here's the setup:
* DW templates (3 - Concept, Task, Reference) and CSS are on an internal drive
* Help content is modularized into different components that are part of an
open-source initiative. This content is in separate DW sites (CSS is copied to
the root of each site directory) and stored a repository along with the code.
* Help content is created as XHTML files so we can take advantage of final
Help output features.
* We would like to use the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD, but it seems like when we
moved from Transitional to Strict, I started seeing the problem. (Of course, I
did some global finding/replacing, so who knows what I may have accidentally
found and replaced along the way?)
* The CSS file is linked into the Help content pages as an external file,
relative to the site root
The Problem
This setup was working fine, but late Friday after I dinked around with a few
things (like, say, trying to switch the DTD to XHTML Strict), I lost the
ability to attach the CSS to any pages, within any sites.
When I look in the <head> section, I can see the link to the CSS. If I strip
it out and re-attach the style sheet via the Dreamweaver menu commands, or by
typing it directly into Code View and save the file, the page once again looks
as if it's got a CSS attached to it...but when I go to apply a CSS style
(Text=>CSS Styles), None is selected. I can attach and re-attach the same CSS,
and it will be listed multiple times in the <head> and in the CSS Styles view,
but I cannot use it.
Any ideas on what went wrong?
I *know* this one is pilot error and appreciate any help I can get.
Thanks!
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