Hi

I'm not always happy with the css in default.css
Some skinning tasks either get really complicated because you inherit a lot of css you don't want.
(and the different ways FF and IE deal with this)

Now there are two solutions:
1. Copy all the rules you don't want to skin.css and overwrite them.
The disadvantage is that you sometimes want something not to be defined instead of defined differently.

2. Edit default.css
This makes the skin a lot less portable.

I think a better solution would be:
If there is a default.css file in the skin folder load that instead of the normal default.css

This solves another (minor) problem too:
Sometimes you don't want the user to be able to destroy the skin by editing the default.css file
Sorry then you would have to do this for portal.css too.

Anybody any comment on this idea?

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Hi Sebastian
I know what you mean, but my problem is that sometimes you don't want to overwride a setting, you just don't want it declared...
Have a look at all the UL and LI definitions in default.css, for every site I have to overwrite them, while sometimes I want the parent to determine what kind of list-style-type to use. Also: try using only one font on the site, then you will have to overwrite really a lot..... (if you don't edit default.css)
I also noticed that a lot of Skinnig questions in the forum are related to inherited values from default.css.

One could also argue that default.css is maybe a little to explicit, it defines the same font-family 30 times..
My suggestion would leave the standard default.css (as backup) alone and give skinners easier control I think.

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Okay I seem to be the only person who doesn't like the inherited css from default.css.
Olsmar:
I guess if your creating a skin where the font-family should be "verdana", you copy the default.css style rules to skin.css and replace all Font-styles with: "verdana, sans serif"...
That's over 40 replacements......

Personally I don't like that, CSS is supposed to make life easier....
One of the advantages of CSS should be: Change the font in one place and the whole site.....

Or is there anybody that has another solution for this
(if you agree it's a problem in the first place)?

   

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