CSS option changed the default aspect of the theme

sebastienmillier · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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Hi,

I just bought the CSS option for my theme (kubrick) and without touching anything, it changed the standard aspect of my blog.
I tried to restore the original CSS Kubrick code and the changement is still visible?
Is-it normal?

Thanks for your help.

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wpadvanced · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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We need a link to the blog in question, starting with http.
sebastienmillier · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 2:29 pm
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sorry.
Here is the link: http://sebastienmillier.wordpress.com

For your information, i just copy the original CSS code in the stylesheet editor and it’s not like before. When i just let the blank page it restore the standard kubrick theme and it works.
I don’t understand why there is a difference.

Thanks.
wpadvanced · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 2:32 pm
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If your coping the entire code, you can’t do that.
Just add in the edited elements you want.

if you remove everything from your CSS, you should be fine if you don’t want anything changed.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 2:36 pm
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Never ever paste the full original stylesheet into the edit window. It will break all of the relative links to images in the CSS.

Paste ONLY the specific sections, and the specific declarations you are going to change into the edit window and make sure that “add to existing” is selected.

Example: If you are changing the background color, then you would paste only the following into the editor
```
body {
background:#D5D6D7 url(images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg) repeat scroll 0 0;
}
```
and then you would change the background image or color or both.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 2:37 pm
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To return to the original theme, delete everything from the edit window, select “add to existing…” and then click save changes.
sebastienmillier · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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Thanks a lot to everyone
sebastienmillier · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 3:08 pm
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Sorry but i still didn’t work.
What i did: i just add this

body {
font-size:62.5%;
font-family:Verdana, ‘Lucida Grande’, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background:#d5d6d7 url(‘images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg’);
color:#333;
text-align:center;
}

I switch the first and second typo but it changed the global appearance (light grey marge around my main window!!)

Help me please.
http://sebastienmillier.wordpress.com

And it changed the global appearance
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 3:17 pm
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The background for Kubric is the image (images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg). You have to make the image “none” as below
```
body {
background:#d5d6d7 none;
}
```
And again, put only the specific declaration you are changing into the CSS edit window. You don’t need the text-align or font declarations. The above is what you wan tif you are changing only the background color.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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By the way, Kubric is one of the hardest themes to work with when it comes to CSS. I suspect it was a junior high school wood shop project.

You might want to look at Contempt or K2-lite. The CSS in them is much easier to work with and laid out far better.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 19, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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If my light grey “marge” you mean the light grey border around the content area this is one of the reasons I suggested switching to a different theme.

To change the background elements for Kubrick, you have to do a lot of work in photoshop recreating background images because the entire background of Kubrick is a series of interlocking images, and that grey border is part of the images.
devblog · Member · Oct 20, 2009 at 12:40 am
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Never ever paste the full original stylesheet into the edit window. It will break all of the relative links to images in the CSS.

Paste ONLY the specific sections, and the specific declarations you are going to change into the edit window and make sure that “add to existing” is selected.

Correct. Since I got tired of repeating this every time I found someone had copied the entired CSS into the CSS Editor, I wrote this post:

http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/

I figured it would be easier to refer them to that post instead of repeating the same thing over, and over, and over again…
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 20, 2009 at 1:14 am
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I’ve bookmarked it and will send people there instead of repeating it over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over.

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