Question

The project I’m working on allows an end-user to modify CSS code to integrate the application as best possible. Most of the CSS values are stored in a database and need to be retrieved and parsed dynamically.

I setup a Style controller, and gave each stylesheet an action, and then passed the configuration data through to the View. I set the ContentType to “text/css” and then generated the stylesheets.

This works fine, but the problem I’m running into is this: none of the code works in the application. I include it in the head code, but it doesn’t parse in the code.

An example of what I do is this:

<%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<dynamic>" ContentType="text/css" %>

.element {
    background-color: <%= ViewData.Model.BackgroundColor %>;
}

I include it like so:

<link href="/style/Basic" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />

When I include the CSS code in a partial view and include it using the ViewModel (wrapped in style tags) in an action, then everything works fine. It is when I try to parse this as a separate file when it does not work.

Is there something I am doing incorrectly? Or is there some kind of glitch?

Thanks in advance 😀

Answer 1

Use a tool such as HTTPWatch to verify that the stylesheet is being sent down and not 404’d