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Themes-Changing the theme.css file

Asked By: Traci Jennings Date: Jan 17, 2008 Category: Sharepoint Views: 586

I have noticed that in changing anything on a theme.css stylesheet,
will not render immediately upon refresh..

I have been told that in order for my changes to render, I need to go
to site settings set another theme, then return to set my customized
theme back.
Another way to handle this is to basically copy the stylesheet into the
source of a content editor web part (between two <style> tags) and make
my changes there to see what effect they will have.

I know that when I modify any other stylesheet (core.css, etc..) that I
dont have to do all of that..I can modify the core.css right where it
sits and changes render immediately..

Does anyone know of an easier way to do this?

Tagged:themes changing the theme css file

3 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Kurt Gilbert Answered On: Jan 17, 2008

The problem is that when a theme is applied a copy of the theme is
created in the site's content database. It is not a ghosted copy so
when you change the original in the 12 hive the changes will not be
picked up unless you do something to re-copy the files to the site's
content database. Take a look at the following BLOG post for more info.

heathersolomon.com/.../SharePoint-2007-Design
-Tip-Import-your-CSS-for-SharePoint-Themes.aspx

Answer #2 Answered By: Jaya Deoghar Answered On: Jan 17, 2008

AlternateCSS is linked from the Site rather than copied into the
database (as a theme is).

Answer #3 Answered By: Candi Branch Answered On: Jan 17, 2008

So what we decided to do is to copy the theme.css into the style library at the
portal root, and link it to the site in question by the alternate url property
in the master page setting in site settings..for testing and editing..then once
we get the theme.css looking the way we want, we move it back to the theme
folder and apply it in site settings..

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