Help with CSS not showing changes on MMM-CalendarExt2

[44mc44]

This is my first pi project and most of it is working well, but I’m struggling to figure out how to make my custom.css file to show the changes on the MM. I created a className of “personal” in the config.js and am trying to change the appearance in custom.css. I’m simply trying to make the personal calendar items look different than the others. I’ve read the wiki and searched for examples in the forum, but I’m at a loss. Appreciate anyone that can help point me in the right direction.

Here is custom.css. I don’t really understand what the .CX2 is but I saw it on several related posts so I tried it. I also tried without it, but no luck either way. It seems like it’s just not applying anything in this file so I’m hoping it’s just something basic that I’m missing.

custom.css

 body {
	.CX2 .event .personal {
  	color:#ffffff;
  	background-color:#000000;
} 	
	.CX2 .event .personal .fullday {
  	color:#000000;
	background-color:#FFA500;
}
      }

Config.js

var config = {
	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: [], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",

	modules: [
		{
  module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
  config: {
    calendars : [
      {
	name: "Personal",
	url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/***********************/basic.ics",
	icon: "noto-ice-hockey",
	className: "personal",
	scanInterval: 5*60*1000,
      },
      {
	name: "Ducks Schedule",
        url: "http://ducks.ice.nhl.com/schedule/full.ics",
      },
      {
	name: "Sharks Schedule",
	url: "http://sharks.ice.nhl.com/schedule/full.ics",
	classname: "sharks",
      },
    ],
    views: [
      {
        mode: "daily",
      },
      {
   	mode: "month",
    	position: "fullscreen_below",
    	calendars: [],
  },
    ],
    scenes: [
      {
        name: "DEFAULT",
      },
    ],
  },
},
	
	]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

[A Former User]

@44mc44
No space between ‘personal’ and ‘fullday’
And don’t put in ‘body{}’

[A Former User]

@44mc44

try this.

.CX2 .personal {
...
}

.CX2 .personal.fullday {
...
}

[44mc44]

Made the following changes but no luck. After I save the file, I run pm2 restart mm correct? I can see the screen refresh with any changes. Just making sure I’m not missing a step.

 body {
	.CX2 .personal {
  	color:#ffffff;
  	background-color:#000000;
} 	
	.CX2 .personal .fullday {
  	color:#000000;
	background-color:#FFA500;
}
      }

[A Former User]

@44mc44
No space between ‘personal’ and ‘fullday’
And don’t put in ‘body{}’

[44mc44]

Just had another thought. There is only one custom.css file correct? The file I am using was existing and is in MagicMirror/css . Just making sure I’m not supposed to be creating a new custom.css file in the MMM-CalendarExt2 module folder instead.

[44mc44]

Success!
removing ‘body{}’ took care of it.
Appreciate the help!

[Mykle1]

@44mc44 said in Help with CSS not showing changes on MMM-CalendarExt2:

There is only one custom.css file correct?

That is correct. It might not be a bad idea to make a backup as you add to it. You never know. :-)

[44mc44]

Definitely will do. :thumbs_up:

[Seann]

@44mc44 Just a suggestion, but you may want to do some research on css using w3 schools or something. The way you attempted to create your css would only work using scss. In standard css you can’t nest the declaration of styles inside of each other. (Not sure how to word it, although i’m pretty certain declaration of styles is wrong.)

[44mc44]

@seann Will check it out. Thanks! This is all really new to me. I read through the CSS 101 in this forum, but I could definitely use more help.

[j.e.f.f]

For a bit of background on this, nesting CSS as @44mc44 has tried to do (known as “CSS scoping”) was proposed for the CSS spec, but browsers were slow to support it, and eventually dropped it altogether.

The idea was you could just limit your CSS to a certain selector like follows:

.some-class {
  h1 {
    font-size: 24px;
    color: #ACACAC;
  }

  p {
    font-size: 18px;
  }
}

This would mean that h1 and p elements inside an element with the class some-class would have the styles applied, while h1 and p elements that are not contained in that class would not. This would be a safer way to write your CSS to ensure it doesn’t accidentally get applied to unintended elements.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work in any browser, so you have to write out the rules individually to achieve the same thing:

.some-class h1 {
  font-size: 24px;
  color: #ACACAC;
}

.some-class p {
  font-size: 18px;
}

@Seann is correct in that if we were using a preprocessor such as SASS or SCSS, then scoping would indeed be supported. You would write your rules scoped, and then the preprocessor would take care of converting your rules to the long form. Using a preprocessor helps to make authoring your CSS easier and less verbose. Alas, Magic Mirror does not appear to use a CSS preprocessor, so we’re stuck with writing it out the long way.