Yeah, I saw that bodycol id, but didn't find it in the page in the jsft cvs
module. Apparently it is "added" by the java.net html as an all-encompassing
"div" tag. Does all that java.net html get added by the server somehow?
I didn't realize you could open and edit a non-project file. Nice!
Thanks,
Mike
On Nov 12, 2007 10:43 PM, Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
> If you take a look at site.css, I added a comment where I needed to
> specify the "bodycol" id in order for my css rules to override the ones in
> tigris.css and inst.css. Here are the diffs:
>
> -.tutorial a:link, .tutorial a:visited {
> +/* Need bodycol in order to override inst.css and tigris.css declarations
> */
> +.tutorial a:link, .tutorial a:visited, #bodycol .tutorial a:link,
> #bodycol .tutorial a:visited {
> text-decoration: underline;
> }
>
> The lines starting with minus (-) is the old entry that didn't work b/c it
> wasn't specific enough. The new one is the same + it includes 2 new rules
> which each include the "#bodycol" reference which specifics that it should
> apply to elements inside an HTML element w/ an id of "bodycol". If you look
> in tigris.css and inst.css you'll find that each of them also include
> this... but because I also have "tutorial" and because I am writing these
> rules in the page, my rules will now "win."
>
> As for tools... "firebug" (http://www.getfirebug.com) is a good general
> HTML tool. It can help with JS, CSS, and plain HTML. You can edit pages on
> the fly, view their css rules, etc. However, I am not 100% happy w/ how it
> shows where a CSS rule comes from (it doesn't). There are some other
> plugins for Firefox that also help w/ css... let me know if you find a good
> one. :) Also, many editors will do syntax highlighting for .css files (as
> well as java, js, html, etc.). This can help find errors quickly... that's
> how I found the typos that you had. I use vim (http://www.vim.org), but I
> only recommend it if you are (or want to become) a "vi" expert. :) I'm sure
> NetBeans and other editors do the same.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Ken
>
>
> Michael Phoenix wrote:
>
> Ken,
>
> Can you be a littl more specific as to what you did here? I noticed that
> you didn't add component id to site.css? Did you add it to each page
> incividually? Where exactly?
>
> Mike
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 2:18 PM, Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > * However, even if the above css was written correctly (and I suspect it
> > was on the local machine or at some point), it wouldn't have mattered. The
> > tigris.css and inst.css files had rules that took precedence because the
> > specified an ID of a component in their declaration. I added the ID to our
> > rules to fix this.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
>