New .css stylesheet reference in <head> tag causing error

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ahsan
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YAF Forumling Topic Starter

16 years ago

Per an earlier post I was successful in dropping a Site.master on top of the default.aspx that YAF runs off of. However, when I add a new stylesheet to the tag I get the following error:

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I don't understand why adding a reference to a stylesheet would break the forum. I am hoping to use this simple .css file in addition to the YAF thematic CSS files specifically to handle the layout of my Site.master.

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Jaben
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YAF Developer

16 years ago

Turn customErrors "Off" in web.config and then tell us the real error...

Also, provide the exact code here so we can see more what's wrong.

It's really hard to help if you don't help us understand the situation...

Edited by user 16 years ago | Reason: Not specified

ahsan
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YAF Forumling Topic Starter

16 years ago

Fixed the error by adding the css as a control to YafHead (the header object) in the code behind. In response to your question, I was originally trying the following:

<head id="YafHead" runat="server">
      <link href="<%= Page.ResolveUrl("~/public/stylesheets/Main.css") %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

I removed the offending tag and replaced it with the following in my Site.master code behind to make it work:

        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            HtmlLink _css = new HtmlLink();
            _css.Href = "public/stylesheets/Main.css";
            _css.Attributes.Add("type", "text/css");
            _css.Attributes.Add("rel", "stylesheet");

            YafHead.Controls.Add(_css);
        }

Edited by user 16 years ago | Reason: Not specified

ahsan
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YAF Forumling Topic Starter

16 years ago

After further testing, I had to remove the IsPostBack check as the stylesheet became lost on a couple pages.

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