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7/7/2011 4:19:06 PM
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artisteer-overrides css

I am new to mojo and I must say i like it allot after experimenting with UMBRACO and COMPOSITE C1.  Skinning has become a challenge, but nothing I cannot overcome so I wanted to ask some questions as things come up.  What is the - style-artisteer-overrides.css actully used for??  I was trying to do something as simple as change a background color and noticed that it is controlled by the this css file.  Thanks in advance

7/7/2011 4:35:53 PM
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Re: artisteer-overrides css

Unfortunately, Artisteer does not (yet) officially support mojoPortal, so the style-artisteer-overrides.css file is used to bridge the gap between what Artisteer exports as an HTML template, and what mojoPortal requires to be styled above and beyond that. One example are the WYSIWYG editors in mojoPortal. Special CSS needs to be provided for those, because they are not styled by Artisteer. Without the additional styling, special effects like headings, bullets, etc. will not appear in the editor display.

Generally speaking, when you're working with Artisteer, it's best to make any changes to colors, fonts, widths, etc. in the program, and then rebuild your skin according to the Creating Skins with Artisteer documentation. That way you will have an updated Artisteer .artx file that you can continue to build on in the future. For things that you just can't do with Artisteer, put them into the style-artisteer-overrides.css file, or create your own custom css file and add it to style.config for your skin.

Hope that helps,
Jamie

7/8/2011 9:52:48 AM
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Re: artisteer-overrides css

Only thing I would add to what Jamie said, is that the reason we have an artisteer-overrides.css is specifically for overriding things because we don't ever want to modify the style.css file exported from Artisteer because we want to be able to update the design in Artisteer and re-export it at any time.

One can edit any of the other css files since they are not produced by Artisteer, but if you modify the one exported by Artisteer you would lose those changes if you ever decide to modify the design in Artisteer and re-export.

Best,

Joe

7/8/2011 3:15:59 PM
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Re: artisteer-overrides css

thank you for the reply guys!  This all makes sense and I will most likely have additional questions as I get into this deeper.  It is really great to get a support reply so quickly and an answer that makes sense.

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