Attach CSS error

Question

I'm creating a website for a client and connecting it to ICE everything's working except the ability to show the css styles in ICE.  All of my text is in CSS and all of the styles were created on the template, so everytime I try to attach style to an editible region on a page it tells me I need to attach the styles to the page.  When I try to look for them to attach I don't see them, I only see my template, and when I tried to attach that (hoping it would pick up the css from it) nothing happened (not a surprise.)
Do I really need to recreate my style sheets on each page? That seems unlikely.
I would really appreciate any help.
Thank you

Answer 1

Hello Angela,
The "Class" dropdown menu in the Editable Region Properties panel isn't for defining a class style (you use the CSS Styles panel to define styles). From the Class dropdown menu you can select a class style that currently exists in the document or in an attached stylesheet - basically all of the class styles the Dreamweaver associates with the document. You can also attach an external stylesheet to the document, then all of the class styles in the external stylesheet will be available in the menu list. The external stylesheet file should be a CSS document that contains only CSS styles and is named something like "mystyles.css" - you can't attach another HTML document as a stylesheet.
I copied and pasted your source code from your link into a new document, and I do see all of the class styles that are defined in the head section of your document (e.g., .Address, .links, etc) in the Class dropdown menu.
Applying a class style using the this menu doesn't apply the class to all Editable regions - only the currently selected editable region.
Also, if you want to apply multiple class styles to a single Editable Region (e.g., <div class="Address links" ice:editable="*">...</div>), you would have to do this manually.
All of that said, this does not make class styles available to editors/publishers of your InContext Editing site - it simply applies a class style to an Editable Region. If you want to make class styles available to your InContext Editing users, you need to put class styles in an external stylesheet, attach the stylesheet to the document, then use "Manage Available CSS Classes" from the Insert > InContext Editing menu or panel
Please let me know if you need more information.
Best regards,
Corey