CSS Mill

Hi all,
I try to create a new stylesheet for a specific Snapshot Query portlet. I want to set the default style sheet by executing this command ant make_all -DCOLOR=19. But it prompts me this error: 'ant' is not recognized as an i operable program or batch file. Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks!

I have been having problems using make_all under ant 1.6.1. Somehow, community_theme file that is generated is all messed up, meaning carriage returns that existed for each language line - no longer do exist. everything is in on one line.
2) any comments that I have in my templates example /*this is a comment*/ are automatically removed? when I build under ant 1.5.1 I do not get these issues. Do you see any issues if I build under 1.5? We are runing latest release of the portal. Also, 1.6.1 complained about it needing a file called tools.jar. I copied the file over, but that did not seem to work.
A side question, if I build my 18 styles once more, will I get all the necessary styles for collaboration server generated as well from build.xml?
Thanks

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CSS Mill for Portlet Border Customizations

Can someone let me know if this is a bug:
I created a new template in <PT_HOME>\ptimages\imageserver\plumtree\common\public\css. All I did was copy and rename one that was already there. I tried using platPortletBorder to set the portlet borders = 0. That didn't work. Border wouldn't dissapear.
Then I set:
.portletBase
     <b>border:0px</b> solid @color.bg.lighter@;
     margin-bottom: 10px;
     width: 100%;
That didn't work either. Border wouldn't dissapear. Finally I went directly to the CSS to make sure CSS Mill was writing the proper info to the style sheet. I discovered two instances of .portletBase. The first one on line 608. Then came all the other attempts to set border equal to 0. Finally, in line 741 a second instance of .portletBase setting <b>border = to 1px</b>I
Does anyone know why there are two instances of .portletBase written to the style sheet and why editing the template only affects one of these instances?

I have been having problems using make_all under ant 1.6.1. Somehow, community_theme file that is generated is all messed up, meaning carriage returns that existed for each language line - no longer do exist. everything is in on one line.
2) any comments that I have in my templates example /*this is a comment*/ are automatically removed? when I build under ant 1.5.1 I do not get these issues. Do you see any issues if I build under 1.5? We are runing latest release of the portal. Also, 1.6.1 complained about it needing a file called tools.jar. I copied the file over, but that did not seem to work.
A side question, if I build my 18 styles once more, will I get all the necessary styles for collaboration server generated as well from build.xml?
Thanks

Is there a trick for CSS mill make_all and 18 community color sets

I've added a color.19.properties community, made additions to the build.xml file, but ant fails...
I get:BUILD FAILEDjava.lang.OutOfMemoryError
Total time: 1 minute 8 secondsjava.lang.OutOfMemoryError
Should I throttle the memory somewhere. I've watched my memory and process, and there is still physical (and virtual) memory left on the machine. There seem to be 2 places that control it for ant/java...

Set this environment variable:
ANT_OPTS
-Xms512m -Xmx512m
This is in the latest versions of the UI Guide and Development Setup documentation, to be released shortly.

ALI 6.5 | CSS folders confusion| Detailed question

Hi All,
i am using ALI 6.5 portal env deployed on WL10.0. I am pretty much new to this ALI Portal. I am very much confused with the css folders and files residing under PT_HOME folder.
Can anyone please explain about these folders and files. Please find my questions below.
a))
In 'PT_HOME\ptimages\tools\cssmill\css' folder i can see css files with the following naming convention.
d_mainstyle##-**.css
mainstyle##-**.css
mainstyle-**.css
What is the significance of these file types.
b))
We have css files in the following locations
PT_HOME\ptimages\imageserver\plumtree\common\public\css
PT_HOME\ptimages\imageserver\plumtree\portal\private\css
The first folder has copied files from CSS mill and pretty understandable. The second folder is having only one file 'mainstyle.css'. What is the significance of these CSS files and In which scenarios's styles from these files will be used.
Thanks in advance,
Gowtham J

its all quite simple really...
many years ago, long before the dinosaurs, the plumtree people developed the CSSMILL tool to generate stylesheets so you could basically have different colors for different areas of your portal. (Unfortunately, they didn't use any of the "C" in CSS mill, resulting in huge onerous stylesheets) These stylesheets generated by the cssmill are supposed to be copied over to PT_HOME\ptimages\imageserver\plumtree\common\public\css after you make updates. I think in practice, many people skip this process and just edit the few stylesheets that they need directly.
Fast forward to the present day, when the BEA (formerly plumtree) people are creating adaptive layouts. They have to add the styles for the new adaptive layouts and sexy new look of the 6.5 portal into the existing stylesheet. Instead of using the CSS mill, they put the new styles in its own stylesheet, but decided to name it so it is confusingly similar sounding to the existing stylesheets. This is PT_HOME\ptimages\imageserver\plumtree\portal\private\css\mainstyle.css.
as far as your question here:
d_mainstyle##-**.css
mainstyle##-**.css
mainstyle-**.css
if i understand it correctly.... the mainstyle-**.css are never actually used...they may have been used in the past, but nowadays teh only stylesheets that are used are mainstyle##-**.css. The d_ is for 508 compatability mode.
http://edocs.bea.com/alui/devdoc/docs60/Customizing_the_Portal_UI/Modifying_Portal_Style_Sheets/plumtreedevdoc_customizing_cssmill_intro.htm

Mapping style templates and properties to Actual Style Sheet Classes

I got this response to an email regarding creating a customized style sheet and thought others might find it useful following is my initial question and the response from David Phipps. If anyone else has input to this conversation please join in.
Initial question: I'm trying to create a highly customized style sheet and could use a matrix that maps the various properties to the styles that each property affects. I have had some success determining the specific styles that I would like to change but am unable to use the style mill with any efficacy to make those changes. We are attempting to create a single language style sheet with a unique color scheme that matches our branding. One big problem we have run into is that certain styles are called in multiple places with different backgrounds (i.e. breadcrumbText). Any help along these lines that you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Response:The CSS style mapping is not terribly satisfying right now; many objects share common CSS styles, which means if you change one tiny thing the whole page changes. We don't have a matrix or spreadsheet or styleguide that lays out the page itself and defines the styles used in each point. However, the stylesheet mill should work for you, and it's possible that what you have going on is a problem with your mill or an incomplete copy of what it generates.
There are 18 styles in the portal currently; you can actually create new styles and populate them, which sounds like the option you are interested in. The mill is just an ANT script that uses the template files in the templates directory and combines them with the property files in the prop-color and prop-text directories.
The prop-text files are per language (10 languages); if you check you'll see the values are all the same right now; the idea is you could change the font names or sizes per-language if you wanted to.
The prop-color files are per style (18 styles). If you want a new set of property values for, say, style 19, you'd add a file called color.19.properties, and the mill would pick that up and generate 190 files (19 styles x 10 languages). It would then add a new line to community-themes.txt, which has a name of each style for each language, based on data it picked up from your new color.19.properties file.
The real secret is that you only add color style elements you want to override. If you want a specific set of styles to always be available, just add them directly to the appropriate template file (in your case, the portal50.template file) without using the @variable@ in place of actual values. Then you're just adding new style overrides that apply everywhere.
Finally, you can add arbitrary new properties to your new prtoperties file and use those in the template:
in portal50.template:
..actionbarPortletBg {background-color: @personal.and.interesting.setting@;}
in color.19.properties:
personal.and.interesting.setting=#ff9900
So the CSS mill is just a glorified text replacement tool.
Remember that the CSS mill works this way:
- Run make_all.bat if you're not sure and want to insure you've remilled everything, otherwise use make_community_css.bat or make_menu.bat to remill only community styles or those for the jsportalmenus dropdown, respectively.
- The resulting files are created in ptimages/tools/cssmill/css
- You have to copy the resulting files by hand to the imageserver CSS location, which is
ptimages/imageserver/plumtree/common/public/css
- You have to forcibly stop and restart your imageserver, be it Apache, Tomcat, IIS, Websphere or whatever; no matter what anyone says the new content won't show up reliably until you restart your imageserver.
You probably know all this and your real problem is the CSS is not specific enough, that is, you can't get individual items to change like you want. We have been working on this, and the new version of the portal will have much more addressable CSS styles, including the ability to specify styles for individual navigation elements, individual pages, and individual portlets. This basically meant rewriting the HTML we generate, of course.
Since you can override and rewrite chunks of our HTML as well using View Overrides, if you're in a jam we can walk you through how to rewrite specific bits of the UI that are causing you trouble - for instance, the code that generates the breadcrumbs itself.
David Phipps
Senior Engineering Manager
Plumtree Software

One way to do this is to give the <body> tag an ID. In a template, you need to make the ID attribute of the <body> tag editable.
You would then have something like this in your style sheet:
#home.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#services.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#about.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#contact.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#testimonials.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li,
#links.oneColFixCtrHdr #container #navigation li
background-color:
#66ccFF;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style:
solid;
border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF;

How to modify portlet's appearance

I am pretty new to Plumtree portal, so please pardon me for my basic question. I created a portlet and added it into the portal that the server is installed in my local pc. As default, each portlet has a title bar with blue background color, has a border line, and the content area has light blue background color. How can I modify it to change the background color, remove the border and even remove the title bar if it is applicable?
Thanks in advance!

Hi, Jean -
It depends on which stylesheet has been selected for your subportal and which language you're using. By default I think the portal chooses stylesheet #1, but there are also sheets per language (en, es, etc.). Hit "view source" in your browser window and look for the ".css" extension somewhere in there. That'll tell you which stylesheet you're currently using. Be careful over-customizing this. These can be regenerated through the CSS mill so if you customize the sheet directly you might overwrite it at some point.
Is your portal in production or development right now? Only reason I ask is because it looks like G6 was released today and if you're not yet in production I'd consider looking at it. It's got some really, really nice features for this sort of thing. :)
Thanks,
Eric

Assigning Different Style Classes to Portlet Columns

Is it possible to use the CSS mill to create a style sheet that assigns certain properties to particular columns in the portal body? For example if I wanted the third column in my page layout to tell portlets to turn their borders off and have a gray background while keeping the borders and white background for the other columns.
I was also told that narrow portlets and wide portlets reference different style classes but I don't see them from viewing the source from my browser. I see platportletNarrowHeader and platportletWideHeader which is for the Portlet Title Bars but not the body. If I wanted all narrow columns to reference a different style class than wide, how could I go about that?

Allow me to clarify how this works.
It isn't so much of a difference between narrow portlets and wide portlets, it is a difference between portlets in the narrow columns and portlets in the wide column. (Narrow portlets can be placed in the wide column.)
Portlets in the wide column reference the styles platportletHeaderBg, platportletWideHeader, and platportletBorder.
Portlets in the narrow column reference the styles platportletHeaderBg, platportletNarrowHeader, platportletBorder, and platportletLightBg.
As you can see there are some styles that the two have in common. platportletHeaderBg controls the table row that contains a portlet header. platportletBorder controls the table that contains the portlet content.
For portlets in the narrow column platportletNarrowHeader controls the text inside the portlet header (the portlet's name). platportletLightBg controls the table row that contains the portlet content.
For portlets in the wide column platportletWideHeader controls the text inside the portlet header (the portlet's name). There is no style that controls the table row that contains the portlet content for portlets in the wide column. Instead it uses the color of the body of the page.
So changing the common styles will affect all columns, while changing the narrow column or wide column specific styles will affect those columns. So you can't just change the style for a third column.
If you want to go beyond those limitations it would involve making a code change in MyPortalContentView.

How can I use an image as background for the entire page?

With CSS mill, the solid color was defined in the color.X.property file and there is no place to define an image to use as the background? Is it doable to use an image as the background for teh entire page? If so, where to add it and how to implement? Thank you!
Hao Pan ([email protected])

While I have been able to add the image to a JLabel and insert it into frames, so that it looks like a suitable background, I have found it impossible to place any other component over the top of said imageDid you set a layout manager for the label?
Check out the [Background Panel|http://www.camick.com/java/blog.html?name=background-panel] for two different solutions depending on your exact requirement.

Portlet border

Can anybody guide me on how to remove the border of a portlet? I do not wnat to show the portlet border in the Guest home page

The portlet border is controlled through the CSS class .platportletBorder
View any of the Cascading StyleSheets in\ptimages\imageserver\plumtree\common\public\cssand you should find in the file the following.platportletBorder {border: solid 1px #<somecolor>;}Change this to solid 0px and the border will go away.
To save you from having to edit all ~180 CSS's.....You will have to investigate how to use CSSMill but it will involve1) A better way to fix this item is to use CSS Mill -- change the portal50.template. -or-2) using the definition of @border.none.thin@ found in the prop-text/<language> files --change the values to border.none.thin=0px3) Regenerate all the stylesheets
Phil Orion | [email protected] | www.orionsmith.com

Frameshifts from Page Mill not displayed same way in DW CS5.5

I currently have a very large website that I created about 13 years ago with Adobe Page Mill, and have been maintaining ever since with Page Mill. The site has about 1,121 pages plus 277 images – about 221 MB altogether. There are lots of inter-page links and links to other websites.
My home page has a frameset consisting of one full-width top frame, with two column frames below. In Dreamweaver CS5.5’s Live View and Firefox preview, it looks fine, and all hotlinks seem to be working. But in Design display, the lower right frame has shifted to just below the lower left frame, but on the right side.
I hope I don’t have to completely remake this page (and others with similar framesets). Is there any way to bring that lower right frame up alongside the lower left frame in the Design view, so it looks more like it’s supposed to?
Larry

Tried to shift to Adobe's *InDesign* several years ago
But that's a print graphics app and wouldn't help you at all with web development.
The site is very popular with teachers (getting 3k to 6k hits
every month, with lots of positive feedback, no mention of problems with the
site.
Nobody would ever know that the ranking system you have there will not work at all. It does nothing. There is no form to submit. You click the button and nothing gets submitted.
But I am about to train a teacher colleague about the site and how to
maintain it so we can share the management of the site. For this, I felt I
needed to bite the bullet and learn Dreamweaver, which meant getting a new
Intel-based iMac.
What you need to learn is *NOT* DW, it's HTML and CSS. With a fair understanding of that, you can teach yourself DW in a long weekend. But for sure, if you are going to try to teach someone else how to maintain the site, you'd better make sure that the code is right, otherwise it'll break constantly and will drive you and your colleague nuts. I'd say the code status at the moment is "dreadfully close to unacceptable".
You mentioned that my Home page is not framed. Page Mill called this a page
with a frameset – a set of three frames. Apparently they are called
something else (or not recognized as such) by the current HTML. What ARE
those things that look like frames?
HTML tables.
Actually, I was incorrect. The pages
with framesets are mostly the index pages, like this one:
http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/evol.fs.html
Yes - that's a frameset allright - and it's straight out of the crypt!
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 3.0 Mac">
<TITLE>ENSI/SENSI Lesson List: Evolution</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET FRAMEBORDER=1 COLS="129,444">
<FRAME SRC="inevo.fr.html" NAME="inevo.fr.html" MARGINWIDTH=2>
<FRAME SRC="evol.f.html" NAME="main.fr.html" MARGINWIDTH=2 MARGINHEIGHT=2>
<NOFRAMES>
<BODY>
Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames.
</BODY>
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
(eww - I feel so dirty)
You asked me if I wanted to see it we can fix it. I definitely do want to
bring it up to date, but with the size of the site, it sounds very daunting.
First of all, are there short cuts that could hasten the process? Would it
be possible to transfer content to a CSS format? The fact that there are so
many links between different pages makes me think that the job would take
huge amounts of time. This is not a money-making site for me – I just
maintain it for the love of sharing good stuff with teachers. So would
there be a charge for helping me through this process? Or would it better
to pay a professional to do this, and if so, what would it cost me? I’m
happy to see the repaired Home page – but how long did it take to do this?
Would links still work (with the page back in the site folder with all the
other pages and images)? Is there some sort of program that does this kind
of “repair work?” Or does it require going into the code and performing
corrective surgery manually? One thing I never bothered with was making
graphic “buttons” for navigation purposes – so I’d like to include them with
the revised version.
* It will be daunting.
* There are NO shortcuts.
* It will be possible to transfer the content to a CSS layout - one page at a time.
* I would have to charge for helping you with this. But we could negotiate the charge offline.
* Hiring a professional would be the best idea yet.
* It took me about 30 minutes to figure out what was wrong with your home page, and then to fix it. Having done that once, similar pages would go faster.
* Links would still work - I didn't touch them.
* There is no such program for "repair work" - corrective surgery is best performed by building a NEW, stable page, and cutting and pasting content into it.
* Graphic buttons are not necessary - CSS styled text is perfectly adequate.
I really appreciate your help in this!
I like what you are doing!

Experimentation and CSS

Hi there
I am a designer of 14 years experience.
When I start a site I usually mess about with text,
backgrounds, sizes, alignments etc etc.
I have been using CS4 now for a month and whenever I attempt
to change font size, alignment etc, CS4 demands I create a CSS
style. Every single time. I work very fast and have many clients
but to continously create yet another style just because it's
new.....
Is there a way to turn this off? At least whilst I am
experimenting as it's driving me insane!! Surely this cannot be
part of the program - I must be missing something, I have read the
manuals and can't find anything.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Cheers
Rob

> So what you're saying is use the css styles window
rather than the
> property
> inspector?
Yes.
> This means that the quick click functionality that I
love about the
> property
> inspector (and DW) has now gone!
It's in another place - the CSS embedded in the head of the
document.
> I have rsi and the last thing I need is to triple the
amount of clicks.
No clicks are necessary when you edit the CSS.
> It may be that my system is corrupt (see my above post)
I don't think so. I see no indication that your installation
is a bad one.
> I asked Adobe 2 weeks ago and have never received an
answer, so I don't
> know
> what to do.
Did I answer your question?
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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> Sorry can I ask this again as this seems to be going
somewhere else.
>
> So what you're saying is use the css styles window
rather than the
> property
> inspector?
> This means that the quick click functionality that I
love about the
> property
> inspector (and DW) has now gone!
>
> I have rsi and the last thing I need is to triple the
amount of clicks.
> It may be that my system is corrupt (see my above post),
although I have
> installed a few times and am on a brand new machine. I'm
not sure if it's
> the
> css or my applications - does anyone have the problems I
have described
> above?
>
> I asked Adobe 2 weeks ago and have never received an
answer, so I don't
> know
> what to do.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>

Site CSS cache error in DW

The probelm is : I have added a website A in my DW, it is OK. But when I use DW edit any other HTML page from site B, the page review in DW shows the A site CSS.
I think it maybe the CSS cache by the site A, How do I clear them?
Thanks

Hey Gunter,
Thanks much, that did work.
The other error I spoke of was fixed with the new database, so apparently the two errors I spoke of weren't related.
You seem to be a good help to this forum, thank you for that.... fixing my problem relieved me from much stress.
Cheers,
Derek Miller
Dreamweaver Enthusiast

Problem with CSS in ADF 11g application

Hi,
I have added a CSS code for my login page(login.html), The issue i am facing is When ever i am opening the page the complete CSS is not coming for each time one CSS component is coming that's means if there are 4 CSS components as shown below i need to login and logout the page 4times. 5th time i am getting the complete page.
.ESPS_login_body{
background-color:#eef1f8;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}.ESPS_login_body *{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
.ESPS_login_top_bar{
background-image: url(../skin_images/login_top_bar.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left top;
height:30px;
I am running the application on firefox3.5.3 version.
Please suggest me
Thanks,

Hi,
Thanks for your quick reply.
MY CSS File:
.ESPS_login_body{
background-color:#eef1f8;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}.ESPS_login_body *{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
.ESPS_login_top_bar{
background-image: url(../skin_images/login_top_bar.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left top;
height:30px;
.ESPS_login_bottom_bar{
background-image: url(../skin_images/login_bottom_bar.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left top;
height:46px;
color:#eeeeee;
text-align:center;
padding-top:9px;
font-size:small;
.ESPS_login_bg{
background-image: url(../skin_images/login_bg_gradient.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left top;
background-color:#6882cc;
height:594px;
overflow:hidden;
.ESPS_login_content{
-moz-background-clip:border;
-moz-background-inline-policy:continuous;
-moz-background-origin:padding;
background:transparent url(../skin_images/login_bg_main.png) no-repeat scroll center top;
color:#4269b6;
height:594px;
overflow:hidden;
.ESPS_login_content_left{
height:594px;
.ESPS_login_content_main{
height:594px;
width:650px;
margin:0px auto;
padding:20px;
.ESPS_login_content_main h1{
margin-top:230px;
margin-left:125px;
color:#4269b6;
.ESPS_login_content_main > h1{
margin-top:210px;
div.ESPS_login_from{
margin-top:20px;
margin-left:245px;
.ESPS_login_input{
background:transparent url( '../skin_images/login_input.png' ) no-repeat scroll center top;
border:none;
margin:0px;
padding-top:4px;
padding-left:7px;
width: 193px;
height: 25px;
.ESPS_login_submit{
display:-moz-inline-box;
display:inline-block;
cursor:pointer;
border:none;
font-size:0;
line-height:0;
text-decoration:none;
font-style:normal;
vertical-align:middle;
background: transparent url("../skin_images/login_go_button_i.png") no-repeat top left;
border: none;
width: 48px;
height: 25px;
margin:0px;
margin-bottom:17px;
div > a.ESPS_login_submit{
margin-bottom:0px;
.ESPS_login_submit:hover{
background: transparent url("../skin_images/login_go_button_highlighted_i.png") no-repeat top left;
.ESPS_login_submit:active{
background: transparent url("../skin_images/login_go_button_pressed_i.png") no-repeat top left;
label.ESPS_label{
display:-moz-inline-box;
display:inline-block;
font-weight:bold;
padding-bottom:8px;
width:110px;
margin-bottom:2px;
div > label.ESPS_label{
padding-bottom:3px;
margin-bottom:2px;
Login Page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>ESPS Login</title>
<link href="/skins/css/mySkin.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link>
</head>
<body class="ESPS_login_body">
<div class="ESPS_login_top_bar">
</div>
<div class="ESPS_login_bg">
<div class="ESPS_login_content">
<div class="ESPS_login_content_main">
<h1>External </h1>
<form name="ESPS_login_form" method="POST" action="j_security_check">
<div class="ESPS_login_from">
<label class="ESPS_label">User Name:</label><input type="text" name="j_username" class="ESPS_login_input" onclick="this.value='';"/>
<label class="ESPS_label">Password: </label><input type="password" name="j_password" class="ESPS_login_input" onclick="this.value='';"/>
<a id="submit" href="#" class="ESPS_login_submit" onclick="document.ESPS_login_form.submit(); return false;">
<span> </span></a>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ESPS_login_bottom_bar">©Copyright 2009, DISH Network L.L.C., all rights reserved.
</div>
</body>
</html>
Please help me

Generally when creating a Word file from either a Mac or Win7 pc and opening it on two different machines (either one first) it always prompts that the file is open and will be opened as read only. However opening a CSS file does not prompt that it is alr

Generally when creating a Word file from either a Mac or Win7 pc and opening it on two different machines (either one first) it always prompts that the file is open and will be opened as read only.
However opening a CSS file does not prompt that it is already open on or from any machine which is causing code edits to be lost.
What we found from out testing:
- The file can be saved from one user to the server and WILL NOT PROMPT on other machines until the saving machine has the Dreamweaver program closed completely
- The file can be closed and Dreamweaver minimised to the launch bar but it still will not register on other machines that it has been changed.
- Also, until the Dreamweaver program is closed on the machines, it will continue to open it's saved version of the file.
Example Scenario:
- User 1 opens test.css (which is 2000 lines) and adds some code to the end of the file to bring it up to 2500 lines
- Meanwhile User 2 opens test.css as well (opens as 2000 lines as User 1’s edits have not yet been saved) and adds in code to bring it to 2300 lines
- User 1 saves his file and closes it - but Dreamweaver is still open.
- User 2 also saves his file and leaves Dreamweaver open.
- The server will report the size and last edit of the file the same as User 2 as he was the last person to save it (and if you open from the Win7 Machine it will show as User 2’s 2300 line version)
- If User 1 then open's the file again (from either the 'recent' in Dreamweaver OR clicking on the file directly in Finder...which version opens.... The version that User 1 saved! Not the true version on the server, but the version that User 1 edited and saved with 2500 lines in it.
- Same for User 2, he will open 'his' version with 2300 lines in.
Other information:
- Files are opened directly from the server
- Sometimes the users will save incrementally and re-open
- Most of the time users will save incrementally and keep the files open
- The users will never not save incrementally and just save when closing the file once finished
- The users are usually working on the files all day
- It is always the bottom lines of code that are lost. It could be a case of the two versions being mixed up and cutting off the newly added lines based on the line count (possibly).
It is as if Dreamweaver is holding a cache of the version locally and then only properly looking back to the server when it has been completely closed. It is very difficult to see how the server is causing such an impact on these files, there are very few logs which are giving any indication to the root cause of the problems.
Anyone know if this is a known issue?
Is there a way that there can be a featured implemented on the server that doesn't allow another user to open a file if it is already open on another machine?
Thanks

Your server file handling has nothing, and really nothing to do with Adobe software. If files don't get locked for (over-)writing and/or lose connection to the program opening them, then your server is misconfigured. It's as plain and simple and that. Anything from "known file types"/ file associations not being set correctly, MIME types being botched, crooked user privileges and file permissions, missing Mac server extensions, delayed file writing on the server, generic network timeout issues and what have you. Either way, you have written a longwinded post with no real value since you haven't bothered to provide any proper technical info, most notably about the alleged server. Either way, the only way you can "fix" it is by straightening out your server and network configuration, not some magic switch in Adobe's software.
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How Do You Add Multiple CSS Rules to Text?

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That way, the hover and the focus states are equivalent.
How do you add (all of) these styles to the text in the first place, I know how to add the first one
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So, <span class="def14grey4"><a href="whatever.html">Whatever</a></span> would get the pseudo-class styles, as would any of the following -
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