One reason might be that there is some required CSS (say a corporate standard imposed by your employer) that you must abide by, but you also have some leeway to add additional CSS yourself. So you import the corporate CSS and go from there.
Virginia > Thanks Bob. The reason I asked is because I'm taking a class and the first > week we used the method you described above and which I'd recently started > using anyway. The second week we used a different method. We linked to > one file, say called basic.css, but at the top of that file we used the > @import statement to "read" the more extensive styles. I couldn't, and I > guess I still can't, figure out any reason for learning both methods. If > I'm understanding they reverse the order in which the cascade is "read" and > , in my mind, just makes it confusing. I was trying to find out if there > was a more substantial reason to use the second week's method. The teacher > just says, "well, its another method". and, I'm too polite to say, "well, > what's the point?" and maybe thinking there is a "point" that I just don't > get. > > any other thoughts on this would be appreciated. > > Cheers All! > > Donna -- Virginia DeBolt Author: Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn Blog: Web Teacher Resources for Teaching Web Design: Book Reviews http://www.webteacher.ws -- ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
