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Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:06 pm**

I recently discovered CMSMS and think it is ace.
However i am having trouble understanding how stylesheets work, specifically how they are assigned.
I am using the 'Top Simple Navigation + Left Navigation + 1 column' template and can see that it has multiple stylesheets assigned.
I have made changes to see the effect and am getting up to speed but i have three questions.

I want to change the background colour for the top navigation menu. Where is the CSS for this?
This template has multiple stylesheets assigned to it. Am I right in thinking it loads the styles from all the stylesheets into one master file? If so, how does it handle multiple tags with the same name?
In the handbook (http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/User_Handbook/Getting_Started/Designer/Stylesheets) it states that there are a few stylesheets attached to all default tempaltes (such as Forms, and Typography). However, when I look in the Style sheets section i cannot find stylesheets with these names. Where are they?

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:46 am**

marshy,

some short answers.

1: If you check, the css attached to the template, using the CSS-button on the right of the template on the template screen, you'll see,

Accessibility and cross-browser tools
Module: News
Print
Navigation: Simple - Horizontal
Navigation: Simple - Vertical
Layout: Top menu + 2 columns

so the name is "Navigation: Simple - Horizontal", this can be changed by double-clicking. If you know the name of the css, you can also go directly in stylesheets, and change it from there.

Iniside it says:

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div#menu_horiz {
   background-color: #ECECEC;  /* background color for the entire menu row */
   width: 100%;
   margin: 0;
}

If you're within the stylesheets, and press the css-button, you'll see all templates that have that css attached. I allways copy the default css, to a new one, and edit that one. From the template, with attached css-es I delete the standard one (it's not deleted but no longer attached to that template) and then attach the copied one. Only if you use the delete-option directly from the stylesheets, you're deleting the stylesheet.

2: It is no problem unless you declare different values, I'm not sure which one is taken then, the first or the last.
3: I think that whith this statement is meant, that if you install specific modules, it comes with attached stylesheets.

Ronny

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