iSiloX and CSS Styles?

[JimThompson]

I am a longtime FP user, and a big fan of iSilo. I am trying to improve the way I write webpages for handheld viewing. I bought DreamWeaver, thinking that it was a better tool than FP for writing web pages for hanhelds.

I finally figured out how to get started with css style sheets, but when I converted my pages at http://jimthompson.net/boating/CelestialNav/CelestNotes/CelestialNavigationNotes.htm to use css styles for the navbar at the top, and a couple of other items common to each of the pages in this group of study notes, their formatting is gone after conversion with iSiloX. I still get a readable conversion, but I would prefer to have some items formatted, rather than all plain text.

So what is the scoop with iSiloX and css?

[iSilo]

iSiloX supports most CSS properties for formatting, but the page at the URL you have given refers to a CSS file on your local drive. In the HTML file, you have the following:

<link href="file:///D|/DreamWeaver/Sites/CN_Notes/CN_Notes.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
If you could please correct that to refer to the proper file on your web server, we can take a look.

[JimThompson]

iSiloX supports most CSS properties for formatting, but the page at the URL you have given refers to a CSS file on your local drive. In the HTML file, you have the following:

<link href="file:///D|/DreamWeaver/Sites/CN_Notes/CN_Notes.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
If you could please correct that to refer to the proper file on your web server, we can take a look.That was the problem. I deleted "file:///D|/DreamWeaver/Sites/CN_Notes/" from that code on each page, and then republished them to the web. iSiloX converted the formatting perfectly, and I also did not get an error message this timef rom iSiloX indicating that it could not open CN_Notes.css. Very nice.

[melvynadam]

So, does iSiloX support converting a batch of HTML files stored on a local drive using a LOCAL CSS file?

[iSilo]

Presumably, what you are asking is an override of the CSS that the local HTML files specify internally. The answer in that case is no.

But if you modify each HTML file to use your custom HTML file, then that is an alternative if you want to do that.

[melvynadam]

Actually that's not what I was asking.

I was asking a simple, newbie question about my own HTML files and style sheets. The reason I'm asking rather than just testing is that the HTML files are being prepared by someone else right now and I expect to have them soon.

So it seems that if I have a collection of interlinked HTML files which specify a local CSS file iSiloX will have no problems (except for the CSS elements it doesn't handle yet (http://forum.isilo.com/showthread.php?t=1288) or crashes when trying to parse (http://forum.isilo.com/showthread.php?p=4276#post4276)).

[iSilo]

Yes, iSiloX will use the local CSS files that your individual HTML files themselves specify.

[melvynadam]

Great. Thanks for the info.

[Voltage Spike]

Presumably, what you are asking is an override of the CSS that the local HTML files specify internally. The answer in that case is no.

Does iSiloX no longer support the CSS/html40.css file, or is it simply the case that those values did not override the document-specified stylesheet?

[iSilo]

iSiloX still uses the html40.css file, which specifies default styles. The source HTML specified CSS always has precedence.