Re: [xwiki-users] Help needed with customizing of Toucan skin

2010-08-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks Lockie for the suggestion only the same thing is happening!! Firebug definitely shows the CSS alright but I alter what the screen is telling and nothing happens even though Firebug reports the change after a refresh The issue is that the CSS is quite complex and am no CSS expert

Re: [xwiki-users] Help needed with customizing of Toucan skin

2010-08-28 Thread Raluca Stavro
Hello, I tend to think that your CSS selectors are not specific enough. See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html . You have to make sure that your CSS rules are taken in account after the default XWiki CSS rules (ex: CSS StyleSheet linked in the header after the default ones that contain the

Re: [xwiki-users] Help needed with customizing of Toucan skin

2010-08-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks very much for the advise and the links. I read through them and now understand a bit more!! However, since I attempted to customize the basic toucan.css file by commenting out the old image code and adding new image code in. Eg: body { font-size: 87.5%; /* 10px */ font-family:

Re: [xwiki-users] Help needed with customizing of Toucan skin

2010-08-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Ok I actually managed to sort this out First up I played around with the style.css file and used the @include statement to include the css for the red background just to try out. I then created a new css style sheet called bg-mod.css under