Hi
putting the file in cartoweb3/projects/myproject/htdocs/css is the right
thing to do
BUT you need to run the cw3setup --install command so the new extra files
are linked(linux)/copied(windows) in the main htdocs/ folder.
this is also the case when you override an existing css, js, img or template
file
using a namespace for the various ressources in CW would certainly have been
a good thing but it's effectively too late now without totally breaking
backward compatibility.
This was taken into account for Mapfish though.
regards
Oliver
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Duncan, GISmatters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Cartoweb Users" <cartoweb-users@lists.maptools.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:06 PM
Subject: [Cartoweb-users] non-cartoweb CSS file location
Is it correct that if I want to use a CSS file that has nothing to do with
Cartoweb (for example, it styles the website's "skin" in which I'm
embedding a Cartoweb application), I just put that CSS file directly into
the cartoweb3/htdocs/css folder?
That appears to be the way I have to do it, but it seems inconsistent with
Cartoweb's project customization approach. I first expected that I should
put the custom CSS file into cartoweb3/projects/myproject/htdocs/css,
along with my other Cartoweb-override CSS files; but if I do that, it
doesn't get copied to the main htdocs/css folder as I expected, and it
certainly doesn't get used (it's outside the web server's root folder).
So, I'm just looking for clarification that I'm doing it right, or making
a suggestion to improve the consistency. The way it is now (if I've
understood it correctly), I cannot keep all of my project files under my
project folder... at least this one CSS file has to live in the live
htdocs/css folder, which makes it more difficult to manage my project
files, backups, portability, etc. because they are not all under one
project directory.
I should also say that the reason I need this file in the Cartoweb
universe is that there were a number of collisions of CSS ids and classes
between this CSS file and some of the Cartoweb CSS files. Also, I do not
have control over the rest of the website -- I'm just developing a single
page with their skin and a Cartoweb application. Therefore, I had to take
one of their CSS files and rename some of the classes and ids to avoid
collision with the Cartoweb names, and now I consider it a part of my
Cartoweb project and want to keep it with the other project files. Am I
making sense?
It's probably too late now, without breaking lots of Cartoweb apps, but it
would be a good practice to use a prefix (e.g., "cw_") in CSS files as
well, so you don't have generic CSS entities like "content"... they should
be "cw_content", etc.
Chris
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