Hello. We have been running websites on the Umbraco platform for around 2 years now. One thing that has bugged us the whole time and seems like it has been getting slower lately, is when typing in a stylesheet within the Umbraco Admin. A good 3-5 second delay after typing a character, which seems to compound when typing multiple characters as you would normally.
Are you guyes editing the stylesheets from within Umbraco? If so...why not use a proper editor instead of relying on Umbraco? Not that it solves the issue but I think it's a better practice.
Have you by any chance been developing on a newer version of Umbraco? If so do you also see this issue here? Otherwise it's perhaps worth reporting as a bug so the core team can have a look. No matter what it should of course not be slow if you choose to edit using Umbraco.
I used to see this frequently too, it was due to CodeMirror (the code editing plugin) issues handling larger CSS files. Is it a large CSS file you're editing?
CodeMirror has been upgraded in later versions of Umbraco, so that may help with the issue. Looking at one of their demos, it seems super fast now, even with large contents - did a quick test on 4.11.5 and it seems great also. So...probably not the answer you're looking for, but upgrading might help your situation :) I'd agree though that most people do their development on the file system rather than the Umbraco UI.
Might also be worth mentioning that I think you can disable CodeMirror in favor of a plain textfield by settting <scriptDisableEditor> to true in /config/umbracoSettings.config. You'd lose all the nicities like syntax highlighting but maybe its worth it if editing in the browser is your only option.
Umbraco Admin CSS Typing VERY slow...
Hello. We have been running websites on the Umbraco platform for around 2 years now. One thing that has bugged us the whole time and seems like it has been getting slower lately, is when typing in a stylesheet within the Umbraco Admin. A good 3-5 second delay after typing a character, which seems to compound when typing multiple characters as you would normally.
Umbraco version: 4.7.11
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Hi Kevin
Are you guyes editing the stylesheets from within Umbraco? If so...why not use a proper editor instead of relying on Umbraco? Not that it solves the issue but I think it's a better practice.
Have you by any chance been developing on a newer version of Umbraco? If so do you also see this issue here? Otherwise it's perhaps worth reporting as a bug so the core team can have a look. No matter what it should of course not be slow if you choose to edit using Umbraco.
/Jan
I'm going to ignore the opinion on "best practices" for editing a stylesheet...
We currently have a site on Azure websites that is running Umbraco 6. Stylesheet editing works fine.
Azure web roles is what the site with the problem is running on. It is the 4.7.11 version.
Thank you for your prompt reply.
Hi Kevin,
I used to see this frequently too, it was due to CodeMirror (the code editing plugin) issues handling larger CSS files. Is it a large CSS file you're editing?
CodeMirror has been upgraded in later versions of Umbraco, so that may help with the issue. Looking at one of their demos, it seems super fast now, even with large contents - did a quick test on 4.11.5 and it seems great also. So...probably not the answer you're looking for, but upgrading might help your situation :) I'd agree though that most people do their development on the file system rather than the Umbraco UI.
-Tom
Might also be worth mentioning that I think you can disable CodeMirror in favor of a plain textfield by settting <scriptDisableEditor> to true in /config/umbracoSettings.config. You'd lose all the nicities like syntax highlighting but maybe its worth it if editing in the browser is your only option.
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