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[esotericvision Friend esotericvisionJoin date: July 2011Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#182264

Hi there,

We are managing a site build on T3 template, and we want to make a few changes in the site styling. We made some changes in the CSS file, but these changes are overwritten later when some kind of upgrade happens. :((

We would like to know how can we make changes to CSS without having to worry it getting overwritten?

[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#473034

Hi

It depends which css files you have modified

could you be more clear on this ?

[esotericvision Friend esotericvisionJoin date: July 2011Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#473037

Well… I looked in the source code and find the CSS files that the page use, and make changes from there.
All these CSS files are in the same folder called “t3-assets”, and the file name are like “css_2737a.css”. These files got removed/renamed when occasionally and I need to insert my own styling definition whenever this happens so that the site looks the way we want. What I did now is put all my own styling in one file name override.css and use @import to include it so I only need to insert 1 line of code when I need to.

This is the site: http://www.mamanootsbelize.com/

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#473038

Ok

The t3-assets folder is the folder where T3 Framework store the optimized files so it changes

If you want to modify your css files first you need to disable the CSS optimization from template manager, in this way you can work on the css files after you saved it enable again the css optimization and you will see that your modification will not be lost

[esotericvision Friend esotericvisionJoin date: July 2011Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#473042

OK, but which file should I make the changes after disabling optimization? The same files in t3-assets?

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#473043

<blockquote>We are managing a site build on T3 template, and we want to make a few changes in the site styling.</blockquote>

It depends about what you want to change

maybe a screen shot of what you want to do could help

[esotericvision Friend esotericvisionJoin date: July 2011Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#473050

Actually what you see on the site is the result we want, we just want it to stay this way without getting overwritten. I have all stylings I want on http://www.mamanootsbelize.com/override.css. I just need someway that I can have these changes stays.
Maybe a way to insert a <link> tag in the template.
I tried very hard but I cannot find where I can edit the template, just to add a line of code I want.:((

[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#473051

Sorry but i still cannot understand what you want accomplish.

When you disable the css optimization you can edit the css files directly, after edited you can save your css file and it will not overwritten unless you make an update of the template.

To check which files are involved in the template style you can use the Developers tool inside Chrome browser or install in Firefox the Firebug extension

[esotericvision Friend esotericvisionJoin date: July 2011Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#473184

It’s not working

I disable optimization and find the CSS files used. But whenever I make some change and upload, the file is overwritten again. It’s like something stop me from making ANY edit to those files. >:(

This is what I did:
I download the CSS file: the FTP client shows that the filesize is 30kb
I make the change, filesize: 32kb
Upload, server side filesize: 30kb -> 32kb
Refresh the server side window, filesize back to 30kb

Also, when I disable optimization, the site become different, even some styling that exist before I make any change is lost until I re-enable optimization.

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#473748

<em>@esotericvision 346356 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi there,

We are managing a site build on T3 template, and we want to make a few changes in the site styling. We made some changes in the CSS file, but these changes are overwritten later when some kind of upgrade happens. :((

We would like to know how can we make changes to CSS without having to worry it getting overwritten?</blockquote>
You can find css file on JA Travel Template here
<blockquote>templates/ja_travel/css</blockquote>
The CSS files are in the same folder called “t3-assets” as your template is using compress css and js from JA Travel Template.
During development time, you can set the Enable Development Mode to Yes
<blockquote>Admin area->Extensions->Template Manager->JA_Travel – Default->Global tabs</blockquote>

Or you can always clear cache from Admin area afterwards when you have done modifying all the CSS files

[birkenstam Friend birkenstamJoin date: December 2012Posts: 59Downloads:0Uploads:18 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#479088

does ja travel have a oweride css file?

i want to edit this css line; body.bd #ja-wrapper

[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#479090

Hi

The Ja Travel template is working in the same way of all others based on JaT3 Framework

You can edit your css files in this folder templatesja_travelcss

Regards

[birkenstam Friend birkenstamJoin date: December 2012Posts: 59Downloads:0Uploads:18 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#479095

Hi,

i cant find this css line body.bd #ja-wrapper

any ideas where it is?

[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#479097

Could you please post a link to your website ?

[birkenstam Friend birkenstamJoin date: December 2012Posts: 59Downloads:0Uploads:18 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#479129

i am building the site on my server please see screenshoot.

why cant you say where it is?

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