Customize CSS now not showing?

[haptalaon]

Hello all - new to DW themes but not new to CSS, and maybe tripping over myself.

I've added some custom CSS on the Customize Your Theme >> Custom CSS page, and it was appearing and looking marvellous. Then - all of a sudden - it stopped displaying my custom tweaks on my journal.

I've tried Ctrl+f5 to refresh my cache, and tried removing the code - saving - replacing it - saving again, and using an external URL. I've also used Inspect on the journal page, to check and confirm that my code isn't appearing at all (it's as if it doesn't exist). I'm feeling low now, as I liked my changes and my basic journal looks dull.

I've got a free account only - is that the issue? Or is this some weird quirk I don't understand....?

Cheers all!

Comments

[momijizukamori]

Shouldn't be because you have a free account! Can you share the CSS you have there somewhere so I can investigate?

[haptalaon]

Thank you! I appreciate it

I've hosted the css at this link, and also have the same text pasted in the custom css box on the dreamwidth site

https://fencraft.leprd.space/hapbook.css

[momijizukamori]

Okay something in the CSS cleaner is not liking the fancy-quotes for some reason? If you remove those lines (or replace them with stuff from the ASCII character set) everything works properly. I'll investigate if something changed somewhere with our recent server upgrades, because that's perfectly valid CSS and I don't know why the cleaner thinks unicode makes it suspect.

[haptalaon]

Thank you very much! I will do so

[momijizukamori]

You're welcome! Sorry for the weirdness - this same code definitely worked before, yeah?

[haptalaon]

No worries ^_^ I'd like to work out what's happening.

Not sure what your question means:

1) yes, this same code has worked before (on different websites - it's my standard typographical preference set)

2) sort of - this same code was working on dreamwidth fine, up until I added the replacement quote marks, when it stopped.

I have currently got the Custom CSS displaying on my journal (but without the custom q quotes)

[momijizukamori]

Ah, I was trying to figure out if you had changed something, or if we had - if the quote replacements were new, I think that's your change rather than something on our end (but we should still be handling it better!)

[haptalaon]

Just to add on information about this bug - i also can't place content:'Blōtmōnaþ' and have the non-standard letters show.

If I make myself a new custom Layout layer, and try putting the content:unicode CSS in there, it has the same outcome - no theme shows at all

[momijizukamori]

Yeah, custom layers go through the same cleaner that custom CSS does, for security reasons. I suspect it may be limited to either just ASCII, or Latin-1 (which is ASCII plus accents/diacritics common in Western European languages) - some parts of our code base haven't been touched in a looooong time and predate widespread adoption of utf8.

(just looked, and yeah, the CSS cleaner hasn't been touched in... over a decade.......... Time for updates I guess)