Use stylesheets that are not linked in edited page?

EricTViking · EricTViking

Hi,

My web page style sheet references are in a header file. Because of this
contribute can't apply styling to pages when editing them.

I have tried putting style sheet references inline with the body of the page
being edited but they aren't picked up.

Can anyone advise how to get Contribute to display styling from a stylesheet
that isn't linked directly within the edited page?

Thanks!

Angrist · Angrist

Hi Eric,

I am having a similar problem with Adobe Contribute CS3 4.1

The site is coded in ASP.NET 2.0 and uses Master Pages which contain the
stylesheet <link /> tag.
I believe that Contribute and Dreamweaver CS3 was released before ASP.NET 2.0
(and Master Pages) were around.
I've tried the ASCX web control includes that are classic asp compatible and
still they're only parsed in contribute design view as little asp shield
icons.. no includes are performed.

I've added this line of code into the content place holder all over the place
just to see if it would pick it up:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Styles.css" />

But the only way I have managed to get Contribute to pick it up is by added
this bit of HTML before hand:
<html>
<head>

Which is just bad practice, not to the w3c standard and I'm pretty sure SOE,
especially Google will ban or give the site a bad rating if I use it.

My solution idea so far is to have the content pages, that Contribute edits,
in their own directory which the FTP details point to. Then to write some
update code of my own that checks for the last updated timestamp on page load
event that updates the ASPX files if there has been an update...

Another idea is to use inline css.. *shudders*

eamclellan · eamclellan

What the hell?

Seriously I purchased the product months ago... to let a few people on staff
edit pages...but I'm using stylesheets - STANDARD and I am finding out just now
that the problem is not us - but Contribute - that it does not recognize
stylesheets in the Contribute edit window - so it mashes all my divs
together...and they sell this thing with a straight face???... and this has
been true for YEARS???

SJimba · SJimba

I ran into this too. What I found was that if the CCS was using a ID type
rather than a Class, the IDs would not show on the Contribute list. <Sorry if
I'm not describing well... realtive newbie to CCS jargon> I just know that in
DW if I right mouse click on a tag element, I see 'Set ID' and 'Set Class'
items. ID ones are in the .ccs with '#' in front of them / Class ones have '.'.
I found no way to have Contribute users take advantage of my ID ones. I was
facing having to do reviews and update in DW too, or change my CCS.

scr · scr

Any sites I'm doing for Contribute administration I design with two stylesheets
- one for the classes I intend the Contribute users to access and one with
everything else. I try to limit IDs to the styles I don't want the user to
have access to. This has worked well for me and has solved some of the
problems being described here.

In addition to the "mashing divs together" problem, it apparently doesn't
quite understand ascii vs binary FTP. Every site I download with conventional
FTP after it has been edited by Contribute is double-spaced.

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