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Override the style sheet of a dependency in a maven project

I have a dependency in a maven project which renders html pages. I want to change the style of a table since the view is getting cut off. How can I access the stylesheet of the table and inject rules into it? Using intellij as the IDE and the dependency is the FF4J package.

Solution

  • The CSS you are looking for is part of the dependency ff4j-web and the static HTML content is located in Github Repository. This solution has been chosen to have a working web application inside a JAR with no internet required (back in 2013)

    Unfortunately, to change this content you will have update the source code

    • Fork the repository on your account
    • mvn clean install to check everything is OK (you may want to skip the 10k+ tests with -Dmaven.test.skip=true it should work but takes 12min)
    • Change version of dependency in your own project from 1.7.2 to 1.8-SNAPSHOT
    • Edit the CSS according to your findings and clean install ff4j-web.
    • Create a pull request to have everyone benefit of your changes

    If you know what is missing in the CSS you can also update the issue existing one adn we will be pleased to release 1.7.3 with your updates.