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  • I’ve been playing with themes, modifying them to learn how to build my own and to customize one a little bit as a temporary face for my blog. However, after I make any changes to the theme’s style.css file, it starts showing the entire file in the presentation pane instead of the Title, author, description that it showed before. I’m not quite sure why its doing this, because it starts as soon as I change the information in the top comment block ( Name, Author, etc)

    I’ve posted a screen shot of the issue at http://www.comictrance.com/helpme/WP-problem.png

    and the style.css file is there too (http://www.comictrance.com/helpme/style.css)

    I’ve been truing to figure this out and I’m at a loss, but I’m pretty new at this whole template building thing for WordPress, so I’m not sure what its looking for to tell it to stop while it’s looking for the title info. Any and all help is greatly appriciated. Thanks!

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  • This crops up sometimes – it’s a known oddity.

    The problem is a /
    The very first thing in the stylesheet should be /*
    That starts the commenting then the browser hits the end of the commenting */ see the correct CSS structure and does what it should.
    The problem is that somehow the first / is being corrupted so the CSS does not look right so it renders as text – as you have found. It looks like a / but the browser does not see that.

    Download the stylesheet.
    Delete the copy from the server
    Open the stylesheet in Notepad / Wordpad or another plain text editor.
    Delete the /*
    Type another /*
    Save, upload, test.

    Let us know ?

    Thread Starter tsmuse

    (@tsmuse)

    Didn’t work. I opened it in TextEdit and Dreamweaver and tried replacing the first /* and I’m still getting the bleed. I’m saving the file with UTF-8 encoding, is there a certain text encoding that WP is looking for that might be causing this? Thanks for the help so far 🙂

    TextEdit and Dreamweaver

    Podz said: plain text editor.

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