Qwwwik style sheets
A style sheet is a text document with a .css file extension like stylesheet.css. Websites mostly all have at least one to inform web browsers how the pages should look. Qwwwik has two with an optional extra one for additional styles. So three style sheets:
- common-h.css or common-g.css (selected in setup)
- stylesheet.css (the main 'theme' styles)
- extra.css (optionally write additional styles)
common-h.css (or common-g.css) is just a normaliser and doesn't really affect the look of the site. Selection of one or the other is done in '/admin/setup' and determines whether 'hosted' fonts are used (i.e. the font files are actually on the website) or Google fonts provided remotely by Google. They both look the same. It's a matter of personal preference.
stylesheet.css and extra.css can both be edited in '/admin/styles' with Get styles and Update styles. The 'Select a stylesheet' dropdown menu offers four options:
- Current styles (the styles currently in use)
- Default styles (the styles in the original stylesheet.css)
- Default minified (a 'minified' version of stylesheet.css)
- Optional extra styles (add styles as desired in extra.css)
Minified versions of style sheets load faster with a smaller filesize. They can be hard to read because formatting and comments have been removed but the styles are exactly the same as a normal version.
The default versions can't be edited. They are always there as backup. The current styles and extra styles can be edited. If a mistake is made in current styles, they can always easily be restored from backup. If a mistake is made in the extra styles you will have to correct it – extra.css has no backup.
The read order is always current styles first. This means extra styles can be used to override the main styles to leave the main styles intact.
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