Sorry I made written mistakes in my previous post. Here is this post, with written mistakes corrected: Hi Krinkle. I've not reach to make your solution running. I propose to try something: Let's try to focuse on the modification of the #p-personal CSS used by monobook and vector skin. Then, using your method, here what we have: 1. Defaut skin used: Vector 2. CSS parameter to modify: #p-personal 3. CSS modification to apply: #p-personal {width:100%; background-color:green;} 4. CSS page where this CSS modification is written: MediaWiki:Vector.css/Layout.css page of our wiki. This page contains only one line;    #p-personal {width:100%; background-color:green;} 5. Using of @import rule inside MediaWiki:Vector.css: This page contains this line and only this line:    @import url('/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Vector.css/Layout.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css'); 6. Refreshing the browser: we use Firefox, we made ctrl+F5 7. Results: no change. The new CSS rule written in MediaWiki:Vector.css/Layout.css, is not applied. What sort of mistake have we done ? Ac ________________________________ De : HiddenId <courriel_achevrier(a)yahoo.fr> À : MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Envoyé le : Jeudi 8 mars 2012 11h15 Objet : [Mediawiki-l] Re : howto include different page.css into one MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css page for organizing css cascade sheets? Hi Krinkle. I've not reach to make your solution running. I propose to try something: Let's try to focuse on the modification of the #p-personal CSS used by monobook and vector skin. Then, using your method, here what we have: 1. Defaut skin used: Vector 2. CSS parameter to modify: #p-personal 3. CSS modification to apply: #p-personal {width:100%; background-color:green;} 4. CSS page where this CSS modification is written: MediaWiki:Vector.css/Layout.css page of our wiki. This page contains only one line;    {width:100%; background-color:green;} 5. Using of @import rule inside MediaWiki:Vector.css: This page contains this line and only this line:    @import url('/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css/layout.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css'); 6. Refreshing the browser: we use Firefox, we made ctrl+F5 7. Results: no change. The new CSS rule written in MediaWiki:Vector.css/Layout.css, is not applied. What sort of mistake have we done ? Ac --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Krinkle message/thread #3 27 Februar: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From within a css file the only way to import another css file is to use "@import". So if your wiki is installed at https://example.org/w/ and articles viewed at https://example.org/wiki/Article. Then you'd put somethig like this into your central .css: @import url('/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Layout.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css'); I don't know where you are using "MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css" but there is a css page by default on MediaWiki wikis called "MediaWiki:Common.css" that is loaded on all pages, perhaps use that instead to load your css pages. And store the other ones as sub pages from it, to keep the MediaWIiki:-namespace clean. So MediaWiki:Common.css would contain @import url('/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css/layout.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css'); -- Krinkle ________________________________ De : HiddenId <courriel_achevrier(a)yahoo.fr> À : "mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Envoyé le : Vendredi 24 février 2012 17h25 Objet : [Mediawiki-l] howto include different page.css into one MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css page for organizing css cascade sheets? Hi, We've created one page called MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css . This page is supposed to "call" css subpages. Then we've created 5 css subpages, called : * MediaWiki:Reset.css * MediaWiki:Layout.css * MediaWiki:Colors.css * MediaWiki:Typo.css * MediaWiki:Special.css Now, we'd like the 5 css subpages been "called" into the central one. What should we write into the MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css in order to get the css rules writen in subpages, working across the central css page ? something like : [[MediaWiki:Reset.css]] ? putting name of pages into brackets [[ xxx ]] ? Thanks a lot for your help AC _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Hi Krinkle. Thanks for your help. Unfortunatly, we are testing on a local installation. The wiki is not accessible. Does it mean, you have tested your method on a wiki using mediawiki engine, to change #p-personal CSS from common.css, or any other equivalent CSS monobook css placed in common.css, and you succeed in it ? And if so, as a consequence, you wander if something concerning our wiki installation avoid a normal processing, do you ? Here bellow, informations concerning the version. Ac -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Version informations (from Special page Version) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Installed software Product     Version MediaWiki     1.18.1 PHP     5.3.2-1ubuntu4.14 (apache2handler) MySQL     5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Installed extensions Other Language Selector     Language selector on every page, also for visitors     Daniel Kinzler Polyglot     Support for content in multiple languages in a single MediaWiki     Daniel Kinzler PrefSwitch (Version 0.1.2)    Allow users to switch sets of preferences     Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw Extension functions wfLanguageSelectorExtension and wfPolyglotExtension Parser extension tags <gallery>, <languageselector>, <nowiki> and <pre> Parser function hooks anchorencode, basepagename, basepagenamee, canonicalurl, canonicalurle, defaultsort, displaytitle, filepath, formatdate, formatnum, fullpagename, fullpagenamee, fullurl, fullurle, gender, grammar, int, language, lc, lcfirst, localurl, localurle, namespace, namespacee, ns, nse, numberingroup, numberofactiveusers, numberofadmins, numberofarticles, numberofedits, numberoffiles, numberofpages, numberofusers, numberofviews, padleft, padright, pagename, pagenamee, pagesincategory, pagesize, plural, protectionlevel, special, subjectpagename, subjectpagenamee, subjectspace, subjectspacee, subpagename, subpagenamee, tag, talkpagename, talkpagenamee, talkspace, talkspacee, uc, ucfirst and urlencode ________________________________ De : Krinkle &lt;krinklemail(a)gmail.com&gt; À : HiddenId &lt;courriel_achevrier(a)yahoo.fr&gt;fr>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Envoyé le : Jeudi 8 mars 2012 12h16 Objet : Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re : Re : howto include different page.css into one MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css page for organizing css cascade sheets? On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, HiddenId &lt;courriel_achevrier(a)yahoo.fr&gt; wrote: Sorry I made written mistakes in my previous post. What version of MediaWiki are you running? Can you include a link to your wiki so we can look at it? - Krinkle

Yes, that's the cause. The url given to @import must include a hostname so for example if you have certain customizations for the Vector skin, you could put them in: MediaWiki:Vector.css/Layout.css and from MediaWiki:Vector.css: @import url('http://example.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Vector.css/Layout.c…e=text/css'); If your domain supports http and https, relative protocols are supported as well: @import url('//example.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Vector.css/Layout.css&am…e=text/css'); That'll work. Aside from that, this is however a little ineffecient in that it makes multiple HTTP requests. Why not just put everythign in MediaWiki:Vector.css (which is loaded by default). -- Krinkle On Mar 8, 2012, at 3:02 PM, HiddenId wrote: