Making multiple CSS files work

mlezak · Post by **mlezak** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:19 pm

I'm porting a bunch of CSS files over from Robohelp -- they start with three CSS files, so it's easier for me to keep 'em that way.

For a bunch of popup topics, I have a CSS file called popup.css. Here's my problem:

In the file list, these topics claim to point to popup.css.
In each topic, it claims to point to popup.css ( From the <head> section: <link rel="StyleSheet" href="../resources/Stylesheets/popup.css" />).

But --
If I select a bit of text in one of these topics and go to Styles>Edit, it opens my default stylesheet.
And when I generate the Help, it's picking up the default CSS (which, I might add, is NOT called "default."

Oh where oh where have I gone awry this time???!!!

I do have a file I have a Master Stylesheet set from Project Properties -- is that my problem?

Thanks much --

Miriam the frustrated.

techwriter31 · Post by **techwriter31** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:39 pm

This might help:
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 190#p82641

Post by **NorthEast** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:20 am

mlezak wrote:I do have a file I have a Master Stylesheet set from Project Properties -- is that my problem?

Yes, make sure you do not set a master stylesheet on either the project properties or target properties.
If you do, only the master stylesheet link will be in your output files, and your other stylesheet links are removed.

straygoat · Post by **straygoat** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:18 am

Am I right in thinking that there is a sort of hierarchy to how the style sheets are applied? At the moment, I think it works like this:

If the Target has a style sheet specified, that is the style sheet the whole project will use.
If the Project has a style sheet specified, it will be used instead of any topic style sheets but not instead of a Target style sheet.
Topics that have are associated with a style sheet on an individual basis only use those style sheets if there are no style sheets for the Project or Target.

If that's the case, when would you ever want to have a style sheet for the Project? Wouldn't it just make more sense to use the Target one only?

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