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Answered Custom CSS for Manager not working

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    mvk Reply #1, 13 years, 4 months ago
    Hi there

    I've just locally installed MODx 2.2.7. While checking out the Manager's customization capabilities I noticed that my custom CSS rules are ignored. For example, I copied login.css from templates/default/css to templates/theme1/css, made a change to a input field rule and modified the corresponding system setting accordingly. However, the browser still shows the default css which is also confirmed by Firebug. Interestingly, there are no problems when I modify any template file. So I really wonder what the problem here could be...

    This question has been answered by quirks. See the first response.

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      sottwell Reply #2, 13 years, 4 months ago
      Try clearing your browser cache and cookies.
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        mvk Reply #3, 13 years, 4 months ago
        Thx for tip. I cleared the cache/cookies and also tried it in another browser. But unfortunately that didn't help :/
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          Darren E Reply #4, 13 years, 4 months ago
          What about clearing the cache in MODX? That usually does it for me.
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            mvk Reply #5, 13 years, 4 months ago
            Nope. that neither helped. I've also installed MODx on my VPS (Debian Squeeze). But there is the same problem on this box. So I wonder if I'm really the only one that has this problem.. Can anyone else confirm or not confirm this issue?
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              mvk Reply #6, 13 years, 2 months ago
              Ok, now I think I know what the problem is: The CSS files are specified in the template files. And as I didn't change any template file, Modx used the CSS files in the default theme directory. That makes actually sense. However, that also means that there is an error in the corresponding man page. It should state that the override mechanism doesn't apply to CSS files:

              The way this is set up is just like extending a PHP class: you can override any single template file by mimicking the directory structure and updating the manager_theme directory.
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                MacLonghorn Reply #7, 13 years, 2 months ago
                Yeah, I'm just getting into this as well and noticed the same thing. It would be great if it worked as advertised.

                What would also be helpful is a description of where the TPLs are being used.

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