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

2010-08-31 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks for all the advise and tips Raluca!! I really appreciate that :-) Best regards, Kaya On 30/08/2010 10:50, Raluca Stavro wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I actually managed to sort this out First up I played

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

2010-08-31 Thread Raluca Stavro
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks for all the advise and tips Raluca!! You're welcome! :) Raluca. I really appreciate that :-) Best regards, Kaya On 30/08/2010 10:50, Raluca Stavro wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Kaya

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

2010-08-30 Thread Raluca Stavro
Hi, On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2010-08-30 Thread Raluca Stavro
Hello, On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

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

2010-08-27 Thread Lockie
Hi Kaya, While I haven't worked with Toucan skin before, the easiest way to edit the .css file of any skin is to get the Firebug addon for the Firefox browser. Then its just a matter clicking on the html in the main panel, and seeing what css is related to which part of the skin in the right