3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 8, 2010 10:32 AM by Kelicia Samuelson RSS

    style sheet outside of contribute website

    jefbak Community Member
      We use Contribute campus wide here at Smith College, but have just started using more global css based style sheets. So while a department might be at www.smith.edu/department/english/index.html, the the style sheet is at www.smith.edu/css/global.css

      How do I setup contribute cs3 to show only the styles in that location to contribute publishers and writers?

      One idea is to pop some kind of generic css file in each department website location with an @import or something like that to get the global css and then point contribute to that file. Would that work?
        • 1. Re: style sheet outside of contribute website
          ThinkInk Community Member
          What you will have to do is set up a stylesheet for each group of users and attach that stylesheets to your pages.

          Then in Contribute you go to >Edit>Adminsiter websites>Users adn Roles>Edit role settings>Styles and fonts.
          Now check 'Show only CSS styles includes in this CSS file' and choose the proper file.
          • 2. style sheet outside of contribute website
            jefbak Community Member
            Thanks. So I just can't choose a style sheet outside of the contribute website no matter which role I try. some kind of css file has to be in the website area that contribute can see if I want to specify one. I could setup a copy of the global.css file which will work for contribute users, but over time it will not perfectly match global as it changes unless we ran some kind of search and replace script every time we updated the global.css file.
            • 3. Re: style sheet outside of contribute website
              Kelicia Samuelson

              I followed your instructions but my styles still do not appear in the style drop down. Is there another setting I should check or another method for adding a style sheet?