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    CSS - Additional Grid Style & CSS Linked Files?

    Does anybody know anything about the Additional Grid Styles and/or CSS Linked Files in V11 Grids?

    And/or - any tips for accomplishing the following:

    1 - Single CSS for the project
    2 - Several different setups for amounts of padding & margins, borders, row separators, and general "griddiness" - that I apply to grids as needed, without a lot of manual housekeeping where I have to change Local CSS Definitions on each one each time I tweak them.

    Basically I need to have 3-5 different CSS setups for padding, margins, table borders, cell borders, row separators, and so on - that I can apply to grids and then manage smoothly. But each application will have only one color scheme. Once I'm ready to roll out web sites for my builders, they will need different colors. The new Style Builder is perfect for that, except I don't see it being horribly forgiving of trying to then duplicate colors across 3-5 different CSS styles. And, managing multiple CSS styles per application just seems like messy housekeeping - and if I understand correctly, can slow down performance.

    So - what I'm hoping is in here somewhere, that I'm just not seeing in the videos and such is a way to define these once in the Project Style and then apply them as needed.


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    While I'm here - Can somebody also tell me the correct terminology for CSS that begins with a # sign? And that begins with a dot? (So as I work with the new Style Builder, I at least know what to select in the builder...)

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    Wendy Welton
    Architect
    past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

    http://www.artformhomeplans.com/
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    Re: CSS - Additional Grid Style & CSS Linked Files?

    btw - it looks like these have been in A5 at least since version 10 - but I find no video and next to nothing in the wiki...

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    Wendy Welton
    Architect
    past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

    http://www.artformhomeplans.com/

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      Re: CSS - Additional Grid Style & CSS Linked Files?

      Wendy,

      You can have multiple style sheets that apply to the same page. For example, in a multi tenant application I tend to have 3, the one for the grid as supplied by Alpha, such as "Day", one for the elements of the page that are common to all the tenants (which I call, cleverly, "common") and one for the unique elements for that tenant, usually colors, fonts and logo sizes and margins and such.

      All the Alpha styles (at least through V10) are named "style.css" and they choose the one that applies by the directory name. So, a style named "abc" will be found by this entry in the page:
      <link href="css/abc/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

      One issue is property naming. If you have the same property name in more that one style sheet, then the name closest to the code will be used. This is a concern because you have no control where Alpha will put the component style in the page layout. You have to look at the source in the browser to see where it went. So, if you list multiple styles in the grid, pay attention to the order.

      For example, if you have
      <link href="css/abc/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
      <link href="css/xyz/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

      and each one has a style for h1, then the xyz style will apply.

      Then, if you have an in-line style (which you get when you fill in the property sheet blanks) then you will get something like <h1><span style="color: red;">My Heading</span></h1>. The style in the span is closer, so it wins.

      The # sign indicates an id, so #my_font will be used in <p id="my_font">blah</p>
      The dot indicates a class, so .my_font will be used in <p class="my_font">blah</p>

      There should only be one instance of using the # on a page, but the . can be used many times.
      Pat Bremkamp
      MindKicks Consulting

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        Re: CSS - Additional Grid Style &amp; CSS Linked Files?

        Oh now this is intellestink indeed! I'm starting down this road to prepare for a multitenant setup for my builder's web sites.

        With Version 11, Alpha no longer insists on adding things to CSS - will now allow even things it totally thinks are necessary to be missing. So, to deal with property names, could you literally split them up? ie - put only things that deal with sizes and spacing in the common one, and then only things that deal with color in the unique one for the tenant?

        I did not know that about the # - one per page. That would explain why some things didn't work as I expected when I was using them in Version 10. Thanks!

        I'm going to play with all this in a silly little disposable application, in ridiculous colors. I'll post back what I come up with.
        Wendy Welton
        Architect
        past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

        http://www.artformhomeplans.com/

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