Possible bug?

Hi,

it’s really strange that this has happened to you again. I don’t really have an idea what might be causing this. It could definitely be a bug, but it would have to be really subtle, and maybe even depend on the server environment. Otherwise, there should be many more reports about this, as “Custom CSS” is such a widely used feature…

Unfortunately, those bugs are the toughest to find, as there’s pretty much no information to work with ?? At the moment, I can therefore only recommend to keep a backup of your CSS.

Regards,
Tobias

Fair enough. It could be a plugin conflict of course.

I assume that I can keep my CSS in my style.css? I haven’t tried that yet but I assume it will work.

Hi,

yes, placing your “Custom CSS” in the style.css will also work. You just won’t benefit from the automatic minification, but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

Regards,
Tobias

Ah – I wondered what the ‘min’ was about!

What is minification?

Hi,

minification basically means to remove all white-space from the CSS files, to make them smaller. In large files, this reduces the file size so that it loads a bit faster.

Regards,
Tobias

Ah OK. Thanks.

Makes sense based on what I’ve seen.

Does that that in principle I could write my CSS out manually all on one line?

I know, it would be a daft way to write it, but presumably the list layout is not an essential part of the CSS file.

Ah OK. Thanks.

Makes sense based on what I’ve seen.

Does that that in principle I could write my CSS out manually all on one line?

I know, it would be a daft way to write it, but presumably the list layout is not an essential part of the CSS file.

I just lost my CSS again!

Using Upload at the time.

Don’t worry about it too much. When I get around to it I ought to check for a plugin in conflict. I am happy to use my style.css instead until I do that.

Hi,

yes, it’s like writing all you CSS in one line. But please don’t do that manually. The drawbacks in usability are simply not worse those few saved bytes.

About losing the CSS again: What you mean with “Upload” here? “Custom CSS” can’t be uploaded from a file.

Regards,
Tobias

Sorry – not clear. I was using the File Import extension to update a table.

I wasn’t referring to uploading CSS – that’s just my vague writing!

I meant the Table Auto Update extension

Hi,

ah, ok. Both of those don’t touch the CSS, so that should be unrelated. I’ll however keep this in mind and double-check, if I see this again like this!

Regards,
Tobias

Just in case it’s relevant, on both occasions I was using:

Import table > Replace existing table.

Hi,

thanks! I’ll take another look at that code then, but on first glance I can’t really see how it could cause this.

Regards,
Tobias