Features / Usability

Posted by joelg 11 Jun 2004 11:44 GMT-0000 posts: 104

A strange and weird tale... trying to play with the bluegreen.css style sheet to change the colour displays a little.

1. I install Tiki 1.7.7 from scratch
2. I enter as admin and enable Categories in General Features, just to make sure it works
3. I change the stylesheet to bluegreen.css
4. I modify one line in bluegreen.css (using WordPad) to read: TD#centercolumn { padding-right: 2px; background: #FFFFFF; vertical-align: top; } (ie centercolumn should be white not grey-green)
5. I go to General Features and enable Articles
6. I go to "Home": the Articles menu appears
7. I click on "Articles" - I get the message "this feature is disabled", articles menu has disappeared
8. Back to general features - and indeed "Articles" is no longer enabled
9. Try it again three times to make sure I didn't make a mistake: no mistake.
10. Delete the modified bluegreen.css and replace it with the original
11. Back to home and refresh the page to make sure new css is in place: colours back to normal
12. Now I can't enable anything ever again - same topo as before, even if I change the stylesheet used.

My understanding was that stylesheets and Tiki were supposed to separate presentation from content: apparently this is catastrophically not the case! What on earth is happening that merely changing the colour in the stylesheet should have such a drastic effect?

The only way out of this I have found is to delete everything and start again.

Whoops! Silly me! Tried again after enabling stylesheet and template modification, then doing the same edit using the built-in editor in Tiki. It seems to work. Bizarre though, nonetheless