Greetings,

The last few days I've been working on a stylesheet switcher, using the tutorial found here:

http://www.aspyre.net/aj/switchtut.html

I looked at several others, but this was the most straightforward approach . And it works on my site, at least for the main index.

But:when I copy the replacement css refer line from my new main index, and place it into my individual archive template...well, it doesn't work. I tried several times, and attempted rebuilding things in different orders: rebuild entire site, rebuild indexes then individual archives, etc.

Any ideas? (I should note that my primary css is used site-wide, and the only change in the new stylesheet is tinkering with font sizes. So it isn't a matter of a different css being default in the main index and for archives.)

btw, the site is question is

http://www.andunie.net

You can see the stylesheet switcher in action on the front page. The stylesheet switcher icons are also on the archive pages for individual posts, but I took out the php refer in the template header for that archive (it wasn't working, and leaving the replacement line in made the individual entries look like garbage).

So the question remains: why should the line



work when in the header of the main index, but not in the header for individual archive pages?

thanks again,

--Anthony

Your stylesheet switcher has a bit of a flaw in it, because the instructions you followed have the same flaw.

Because the href starts with "./", the links to switcher.php are relative to the location of the page that the link is on.

On your main weblog page (http://www.andunie.net/), the full link to the stylesheet switcher ends up being:

...which works just fine, because switcher.php is in the root directory of your domain.

On an individual archive page (such as http://www.andunie.net/mt-archives/000274.php), the full link to the stylesheet switcher ends up being:

...which does *not* work, because switcher.php is not in the /mt-archives directory of your weblog.

There's at least a few ways to deal with this problem. Since your weblog is at the root of your domain, the easiest solution is to remove the "." from the beginning of the href links, so they will be relative to the domain root instead of the page's URL:

A more general solution would be to use the MTBlogRelativeURL tag:

Side note: Your individual archive template does not have an alternate stylesheet 'link' tag like your main index template does. Not a big deal, but I thought I'd point it out while I was looking.

Hope this helps...

David,

It turns out that the problem you described was indeed a problem--just one I hadn't gotten to yet.

The more immediate issue was that the stylesheets weren't being called correctly. Instead of



I needed



Your suggestions got me going. Many thanks.

--Anthony