Site css influences administrator template

[Zilvermeeuw]

Hi All,

I copied "components/com_virtuemart/assets/css/chosen.css" to my site template and made a lot of changes. My site looks good now.
But it changes also some views in the administrator part of Virtuemart. In Firefox I can see it calls the chosen.css from my site template (/templates/"name"/css/chosen.css), although I visit the administrator part.

Is there a mixup between the administrator template (I use isis) and the site template? I cannot find how and where the administrator template calls for the site "chosen.css".

Any ideas how to solve this?

[jenkinhill]

I suspect you should have left an original copy of chosen in its original location, and used an edited copy with your changes as a css override, like here:  http://docs.virtuemart.net/tutorials/templating-layouts/106-override-vmsite-ltr-css.html . 

[Zilvermeeuw]

Hi Jenkinhill,

Yes, I have left the original at its location and using an edited copy as an override in my template.
In both the original and copy are no links to images. So the

I think it's weird to find an "site" css file in the "administrator" part.

By the way: I use Joomla 3.3.6 and VM 3.0.2

Any other ideas?

[jenkinhill]

VM uses 4 "frontend" css files for admin. It saves duplication!

[Zilvermeeuw]

Aaaha, now it is not weird anymore!

Now it's just a problem ;-)

So the admin uses the Joomla Override functions to search the chosen.css and finds my edited one in the "site" template.
Is there a way to use an "admin-only" override? I tried to put the original chosen.css in "/administrator/temlates/isis/css". But that is not working.

[jenkinhill]

I have never needed to edit chosen so have no experience if this, but for another (non-VM) component I hard coded a link to a specific FE css file I needed to use in the BE by adding the link just before the closing </head> on the admin template index.php - in this case it was for the Hathor template & the change was made for improved user visibility.

[Zilvermeeuw]

OK, thanks!
I will try this.