Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-28956386-20170630133935/@comment-24014422-20170703130039

TK-999 wrote:

Luma.dash wrote:

Andrewds1021 wrote: Are you suggesting that Wikia is inadvertently (supposedly) blocking imported fonts on the site level? I don't quite follow when you reference "this troublesome @import problem of Wikia". Not imported fonts specifically, but any import executed on the site-wide .CSS files. I've reported it to Wikia Staff, but yet no one has given me a straight-forward answer.

Though Kirkburn did acknowledge that it is an existing problem, at least on some wikis. The CSS  declaration only works if it is placed at the beginning of a stylesheet.

For better performance, the MediaWiki software concatenates site CSS files into a single one, with MediaWiki:Common.css coming first, so that the skin-specific stylesheets like MediaWiki:Wikia.css can override it as needed. As such,  declarations placed at the top of MediaWiki:Wikia.css will not work&mdash;they must be placed at the top of MediaWiki:Common.css instead. That could maybe work. But, if someone wants to just affect the Wikia skin apart of the Monobook skin, placing the import at MediaWiki:Wikia.css should also be working.

What affects a skin should not necessarily affect the other one. Besides, if some imports are specifically designed to affect the Monobook one, shouldn't it be just placed on top of MediaWiki:Monobook.css file?

Your statement does not work out the situation when imports were working on a specific CSS file before, and now they don't.