Editing space-specific style sheet causes global style sheet to be ignored

[Matthew J. Horn]

When I edit the space-specific style sheet (Edit Space > Look And Feel > Stylesheet) and save my changes, the new styles are applied. However, this causes the global style sheet (Admin > Look And Feel > Stylesheet) to no longer be applied.

Is this a bug? Is there any way around it?

[Daniel Borcherding]

Hello Matt,

You are complately correct. I duplicated this behavior in my test instance and filed the following bug.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27929

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[Matthew J. Horn]

Thanks for filing the bug. For a workaround, I created a separate stylesheet and referenced it in the head section of each space's Main Layout decorator.

[Debbie Rothe]

Thanks a lot!
Now can i really start my css job

[Matthew J. Horn]

I typically put the CSS files in a directory under /confluence/confluence/includes/css. This is where Atlassian stores their stylesheets by default.

When importing, the location is relative to the /confluence/confluence directory (it's the directory that contains WEB-INF). So my stylesheet tag looks like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/includes/css/pl.css" type="text/css">

[Debbie Rothe]

Hi Matt thank you for this usefull workaround!


@all: To find out if I got "head section of each space's" correctly I put some

<... border-color: ...>

into the code. It works! Now with next step have I – a confluence-beginner – a problem with the (relative) path of my_wonderfull_space.css: what should I wrote into the href=" ... ?

And directly the next one: Need I (using ftp) a special upload-directory for all the spaces.css or what is the easiest upload way?

Thanks in advance

your Greenhorn

[Matthew J. Horn]

I typically put the CSS files in a directory under /confluence/confluence/includes/css. This is where Atlassian stores their stylesheets by default.

When importing, the location is relative to the /confluence/confluence directory (it's the directory that contains WEB-INF). So my stylesheet tag looks like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/includes/css/pl.css" type="text/css">

[MatthewC]

is it the whole global stylesheet that is ignored? Or are you hitting CSS naming oddness? Since the space sheet is applied later, it will over-write the global one where the CSS references overlap.

Or is it more than that?