Pseudo Stylesheet Question

[nyfeman]

I'm managing a group of subpages on a company CMS.  To achieve what I need to, I'm using html within a rich text module styled on-page.  In a perfect world, I'd make it an external stylesheet for one and done changes.  Of course, the CMS doesn't support this.

So... Is there a way in DW to have a pseudo external stylesheet where I can make changes and it appears on each page for when I copy & paste the code into the component?  Snippets is close, but  I would still need to make the changes on one of the pages, copy it to my snippet, then remove the current style section and replace with the snippet.

Any thoughts?

[B i r n o u]

any way to modify the DOM on the fly ?

[pziecina]

Dw used to include a feature called, 'design time style sheets', which would have done what you wish. Unfortunatly this feature was removed a number of years ago, (i think it was in Dw2014).

You could try dropping back to Dw CS6, as i know that version did include the feature.

[Nancy OShea]

Yes,  DW CS6 supported Design Time stylesheets.  They were removed in 2015 for reasons I will never understand.

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

I just tested this...

DW CC 2015 - Design-time CSS is missing where has it gone?

...in CC2018, and the css affects the Design View, though I did have to use the OS path (C:\path\to\file.css) of the .css file to get it to work.

[pziecina]

I don't want to get into a discussion about this, but Prerans reply in the thread Jon linked to, does make sense in the context that Dw is for 'designers who wish to code'.

Such a feature as design time style sheets, is aimed more at developers than designers who wish to code.

Unfortunatly it does for me confirm that Dw is no longer for serious development work, which even though regrettable, is now something that cannot be changed, as that roadmap is now too far advanced.

[nyfeman]

Thanks!