ID exports HTML CSS in wrong order!

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I just spent 20 minutes trying to tweak an HTML export page with some CSS, and finally realized the output wasn't reading any of my changes. 

So I looked at the code... and found ID is placing the added CSS before the generated CSS file!

This has to be a new bug, or it would have been noted long ago, I think. I'm pretty sure I've done HTML CSS before with no problems..

[Laubender]

Hi James,

did you use InDesign 2023 version 18.5.0 ?

( Still I cannot see the release version for it here in Germany, but I'd be able to test the Prerelease version on my Windows 10 machine. )

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Still on 18.4 here. I should have noted that. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

This really needs to be reported as a bug and acknowledged for fixing, but all I see is the Feature Request forum, which is not the same thing.

Unless someone with 18.5 wants to run a quick test and see if the reversed CSS export was a one-release glitch...

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

And yes, this fault persists in v18.5 under Windows. This needs to be acknowledged as a bug needing a fairly urgent fix, as it completely cripples the ability to use CSS files with HTML exports and in a subtle way that will surely confound many users.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

And, just a bump on this, v19/2024 is still exporting the CSS in the wrong order. A warning to anyone exporting to HTML with an associated CSS file.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

No fix in v19.1:

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Sigh. No fix in v19.2: