editing css both in file and in backend - not allowed?

Hi there,

Probably a very simple question:
It seems when I edit a css file which can also be edited in the backend CSS section, Typolight continually rewrites the css file from information in its database - i.e. overwrites any changes I made to the file with my text-editor.

Is there no way around this?

How should I integrate custom CSS into my templates? not using the typolight backend? Just write the links to the css files into the template file myself?

thanks,
John

You are right. To add a self written css you'd have to add it in the template. The css files in the root directory are managed from a database. The contents are not read by TL, instead they are overwritten every time you change anything in the TL backend stylesheets.

Hi Vera (or anyone, for that matter),

I have a quick followup to this -- do you know if it's possible to specify a different location for TYPOlight to write those CSS files? I've never really been a huge fan of them getting dropped into the root of the site. I think I'd rather have them all tidy in their own folder.

Thanks!

@John - you may be interested in using the CSS editor extension which allows you to manually edit css files on the server or use the built in css editor.

@Medianomaly - I don't know of an easy way to have css files written to another location. It would be nice to set the path in Settings, though. This way, you could specify /tl_files/css or anything you like. If you're interested in seeing this feature added to the core, you should submit a request at http://dev.typolight.org.