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ray22901031  
#1 Posted : Thursday, February 13, 2020 3:20:44 PM(UTC)
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Strange behavior with the skin.css file.

I can duplicate this on two fresh installs on my end, last night I was working with the skin.css file on my server modifying the:

background-image: url(images/pattern.png);
background-color: #FFFFFF;

Nothing serious, just turning off the background pattern, and playing with a few colors. This morning when I try to do the same thing, the system will not reflect the new changes. I have reset the IIS server, I have turned off caching, I have tried different browsers, I have rebooted all computers, same thing.

When I load the main page either using Firefox or Chrome and hit F12, I am not able to manipulate the settings either, what am I missing here?

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shari  
#2 Posted : Friday, February 14, 2020 4:34:32 AM(UTC)
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Hi,

Please note that skin.css is intended to be used for our CMS theme editing feature from the UI. This file should not be changed from an editor.

To add your custom styles, you need to edit custom.css file under Themes/{Name}/Content/custom.css. These changes will override the default styling.

As far as your case is concerned this is not clear why aren't you seeing the desired results. If you use the UI component to edit the theme standard styles it may become clear to you.
We recommend you to try making similar changes from UI.

  • Please login as admin
  • Visit Home page
  • Turn on the editing mode using the floating menu on the right side of the screen
  • Then slide open the left bar using the arrow
  • Select the THEME tab from the top
  • Select the Background option and try changing the background color/image
  • On the bottom, you will have the option to first see the preview and if the changes are final you can Publish the changes.


Please also note that:
preview changes are reflected using skin.preview.css
published changes are reflected using skin.css
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ray22901031  
#3 Posted : Friday, February 14, 2020 10:36:37 AM(UTC)
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Hello Shari,

Thank you for your reply, this now makes sense as to why the background image was constantly showing even though it was commented out. I'm assuming the best way for those of us who want to manually edit the skin.css file is just copy the entire thing into the custom.css file.

Would you say this is the recommended approach?

The reason I was not seeing the changes after a manual edit, was that you could not commented out the "background-image: url(images/pattern.png)", it would still show, what was needed to be done was either pick another image or exclusively tell it not to display it by the using "background-image: none;".

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ray22901031  
#4 Posted : Friday, February 14, 2020 11:00:04 AM(UTC)
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Hello Shari,

UPDATE !

Trying to override the background image in the custom.css is not working for me, could you see if it's working for you and if so just post your code for review.

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#5 Posted : Friday, February 14, 2020 11:04:01 AM(UTC)
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Works if you use the "!important" tag at the end. - Just sharing information.
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#6 Posted : Friday, February 14, 2020 11:44:05 AM(UTC)
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Hi,

Quote:
Would you say this is the recommended approach?


Sure, you can do so if you need to manually change the styles.
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