The praxis theme has two CSS files in css/: style.css (2000 lines, the
actual stylesheet loaded by the Twig template via assets.add('theme://
css/style.css')) and _style.css (1928 lines, a partial/backup variant
with different values). I had been copying _style.css all along —
wrong file. style.css has the correct line-heights (h1 34px, h2 28px
vs the partial's 24/24), an extra .text-bg rule, and the proper media
breakpoints. That's why paragraph spacing kept diverging from live no
matter what I touched in the body block — the differences were in the
heading rules and elsewhere in the file. Replace praxis.css with the
real source.
Stage's paragraph spacing was larger than live on text-heavy pages
(~4px per line). Root cause: when I converted the SCSS-style // comments
in praxis.css to /* */ a few iterations back, I accidentally revived
the body{} block that live's Grav asset pipeline silently drops at
build time. The block sets line-height: 24px (vs Bootstrap default
1.428 = ~20px) plus font-family Roboto and color #969595. The live
pipeline rejects the rule because the original `font-size: 14px; //13px;`
line has invalid CSS syntax — its minifier discards the whole
declaration. Browsers viewing my cleaned-up praxis.css accept the rule
and apply all properties.
Easiest way to match live exactly: remove the block. Bootstrap's body
defaults (Helvetica, line-height 1.428) now apply uniformly on stage,
matching the live render.
Surgical follow-up to the previous revert. The home-carousel indicator
dots drift because flexslider.css adds `.carousel li { margin-right: 5px }`
which bleeds into Bootstrap's carousel-indicators li. Bootstrap's
.active override removes margin on the active dot, but the inactive
keeps that 5px right margin — so when the inactive sits on the left
(slide 2 active), it pushes the active dot ~4px to the right.
The previous attempt also removed jquery.flexslider-min.js, which
empirically broke the hero/team carousels (the JS load seems to
participate in Bootstrap's data-ride auto-init timing on this custom
build). Keep the JS, drop only the CSS link plus the static file. Also
remove the now-superseded stage tweak at the bottom of praxis.css.
Root cause of the home carousel indicator dots drifting apart on slide
change: flexslider.css adds a rule `.carousel li { margin-right: 5px }`
that bleeds into Bootstrap's carousel because both use the `.carousel`
class. With Bootstrap's `.active { margin: 0 }` overriding the active
dot but flexslider's `margin-right: 5px` still applying to the inactive
dot, the gap between the two dots is asymmetric — 1px when active is on
the left, ~9px (1+4+4) when active is on the right.
Live's Grav asset pipeline doesn't bundle that flexslider rule (the
live HTML uses Bootstrap carousel exclusively too), so the bug is
stage-only.
We don't actually use flexslider — testimonialSlider was the only
target in scripts.js and it doesn't exist in our markup. Drop the css
link, the js script tag, and the static assets. Also revert the
previous attempt that forced active dots to inactive geometry; with
flexslider gone, Bootstrap's design (active 12px margin 0 + inactive
10px margin 1 → both outer 12px) keeps positions stable on its own,
which matches the live behavior the user observed.
Bootstrap-3's default makes the active indicator 12x12 with margin 0
while inactive is 10x10 with margin 1px. With two slides the size and
margin swap shifts dot positions on every slide change, which reads as
the gap between dots changing. Force all dots to the inactive geometry
so only the fill toggles.
The hand-edited live theme stylesheet uses // for line comments in
several places — valid in SCSS, invalid in CSS. Browsers recover but the
recovery can drop the surrounding declaration depending on context. The
body{} block at the top of the file in particular had `font-size: 14px;
//13px;` which on some browsers kills the whole rule, falling back to
Bootstrap's body defaults (Helvetica, line-height 1.428). Convert the
seven // line comments to /* */ so parsing is unambiguous.
The Sass file in sass/_praxis_theme.scss had drifted from the live
_style.css over the project's life — different line-heights (34/28 vs
24), padding overrides, restructured selectors, and a few sections that
the SCSS parser couldn't accept anyway (CSS // line-comments, missing
semicolons inherited from the original hand-written CSS).
For Phase 1 visual parity the correct source of truth is the live CSS,
not a re-edited copy. Drop compile_sass, ship the live _style.css as
/css/praxis.css straight from static/, and point base.html at it. This
restores the live vertical rhythm (paragraph spacing, banner padding)
that had been subtly off.
Brummel