Directly viewing/editing html (and css)

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics David

As Boy points out, Web Designer generates the HTML code and associated files when you publish. So even if you edit the HTML document in a text editor, Web Designer will overwrite your changes the next time you make a change and publish your site.

If you need to add a script or line of code to your page can do so using a Placeholder object, which can be anything, usually a simple rectangle.

Select the placeholder object, go to Website Properties > Placeholder and then click the Insert HTML Body or Head button and paste your text or script. Placeholders are invisible when you publish but insert your code or script into the page or site every time you publish.

For more information see Help > Index > Placeholder Objects

[Acorn]

Never try to change published HTML manually, it will all get overwritten.

Acorn

[Acorn]

You can import a CSS file and if is have !Important, it can be used over Xara's published one.
You select an Object and use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A and attach you file that way.

The cheap and cheerful way is to add <style> blocks in Placeholders, Page or Website code areas.

Acorn

[dr2468]

Many thanks for all the fast and helpful replies.

-- David.

[jonstrong]

Learning to mix Xara's own generated code with whatever you put in placeholders is really quite powerful and convenient. Xara's own tools make it feasible to design and build quickly -- and with placeholders, you can drop in custom HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery, etc. to add all sorts of additional functionality. Very nice once you get the workflow down.