Hi folks,

I have a situation where updates to a theme CSS are not being displayed on the ASPX page.

I have set up APP_THEMES/DEFAULT as the "default" theme. Inside, there's DEFAULT.CSS. When I started working with the site, everything was fine...changes to the CSS would be displayed without issue.

I thought I would include a SKIN file to handle the tedium of datagrids, etc, so I added one in, defined the datagrid, and everything seemed OK (the skin definition in the SKIN file referenced the styles from the CSS file).

However, I decided that I didn't need to go as far as having a SKIN file, so I deleted it (Just DELETE from the VS2005 IDE Solution Explorer).

It seems now that whenever I make changes to the CSS file, elements on the web page which refer to classes within the CSS file no longer reflect those changes. No matter what I do (for instance, changing a font size), the page still displays the same formatting.

I used the Web Site Copy functionality in the VS IDE, closed the project, and opened the copied project in the IDE WITH changes to the CSS file (changing font size from 14px to 140px), and the copied version displayed the 140px font size. However, changing the CSS class back to 14px had NO effect on the copied site.

I am using the embedded web server that shipped with VS2005. If anyone has any suggestions, it would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

Actually, in the time it took for this to get approved, I KIND of figured it out. It seems that there's some kind of issue with third party CSS editors (I am using Topstyle Pro 3). Editing the CSS outside of the VS IDE, while actually MAKING the changes to the file, wasn't reaching the actual website for some reason. When I edited the CSS in VS, the changes went though OK.

Now, when I first open a CSS file in Topstyle when the CSS file was created in VS' THEME directory, there are some funky characters right before the BODY ID at the top of the sheet. I usually delete these, but I wonder if there's any kind of meta-data that the VS IDE might be including in the CSS that is throwing this off?

Anyway, case closed for now. Thanks for taking the time to view this post.

Chris

I've tried it in IE, Firefox and Opera, an none of them display the changes made to the stylesheets, even when the changes are obvious (such as ridiculous font sizes). For the non-IE browsers, I hit the site for the first time AFTER the styles were changed, so the browsers wouldn't have a cached copy of the page at all.

I've just removed all pages (ASPX, MASTER, ASCX) as well as the theme directories and all CSS files, added in a master page, ASPX page, the Theme directory with the "Default" subdirectory and a single StylesSheet.css. I added a Pre_Init handler to assign the theme (Me.Theme="Default") for the default.aspx page, set the body font to 200px and the background color to Aqua. When I run the site, all I get is white page with default sized text, which is amazingly frustrating, The CSS is sound, since the changes show up fine in Topstyle's preview window.

It's got to be something between the page and the CSS sheet, since putting the styles into the HTML via the STYLE attribute works fine, but I'm confused as to why this link issue would be carried over between browsers as well.

I have a lead, although I don't know why...Apparently, it's the WEB.CONFG file which is messing things up. Specifically, the LOCATION element.

Below is my WEB.CONFIG. It's all pretty much stock, although I ran it through the web configuration tool to get the Membership and Roles providers set up.

The goal is to allow non-registered users access to DEFAULT.ASPX, with authenticated members belonging to ADMINISTRATORS or USERS roles having full access (for now) to the pages.

It seems that when the LOCATION element is present in the below format, the external CSS isn't applied. When I remove the LOCATION element, the CSS shows up. I've DONE this before, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the heck is going on here...

Any help would be appreciated.

3    <configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">
4    <location path="Default.aspx">
5    <system.web>
6    <authorization>
7    <allow users="?"/>
8    </authorization>
9    </system.web>
10   </location>
11   <appSettings/>
12   <connectionStrings/>
13   <system.web>
14  
15           <roleManager enabled="true"/>
16   <authentication mode="Forms">
17   <forms name=".ASPXAUTH" loginUrl="Login.aspx" defaultUrl="Default.aspx" protection="All" timeout="30" path="/" requireSSL="false" slidingExpiration="true" cookieless="UseDeviceProfile" domain="" enableCrossAppRedirects="false">
18   <credentials passwordFormat="SHA1"/>
19   </forms>
20   </authentication>
21   <authorization>
22   <allow roles="Administrators,Users"/>
23   <deny users="*"/>
24   </authorization>
25   <compilation debug="true" strict="false" explicit="true"/>
26   <pages theme="Default">
27   <namespaces>
28   <clear/>
29   <add namespace="System"/>
30   <add namespace="System.Collections"/>
31   <add namespace="System.Collections.Specialized"/>
32   <add namespace="System.Configuration"/>
33   <add namespace="System.Text"/>
34   <add namespace="System.Text.RegularExpressions"/>
35   <add namespace="System.Web"/>
36   <add namespace="System.Web.Caching"/>
37   <add namespace="System.Web.SessionState"/>
38   <add namespace="System.Web.Security"/>
39   <add namespace="System.Web.Profile"/>
40   <add namespace="System.Web.UI"/>
41   <add namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls"/>
42   <add namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts"/>
43   <add namespace="System.Web.UI.HtmlControls"/>
44   </namespaces>
45   </pages>
46   </system.web>
47   </configuration>