I had a quick question - and probably one that everyone on this list but 
me knows about  :)  - about stylesheets and the @import rule.  I was 
working on converting a Wordpress theme today (Blix, if anyone cares to 
know), and the stylesheet had something I had never seen before. 
Basically, the header of the document called in the stylesheet like so:

<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="styles.css" />

This is typical (at least for me...).  However, in the "styles.css" 
file, there were only two lines:

@import "layout.css";
@import "spring_flavour.css";

I have never seen this before.  Honestly, I think it's as cool as hell. 
  It basically used the regular main stylesheet to just list the other 
stylesheets relevant to the layout, and display them as needed.  So far, 
the only reason I can guess one would do this is 1) so as to only call 
in one stylesheet in the actual HTML document (styles.css), but 2) to 
actually keep all of the stylesheets for different parts of the layout 
separated to make it easier to edit and find stuff later on.

I was curious if anyone here had seen or used such a method before, and 
if so, are there any drawbacks to doing so?  Are there any problems in 
using stylesheets in this manner, or is it a common practice?  If there 
are no drawbacks or weirdness into using stylesheets in this manner, I 
*so* want to utilize this.  It could come in very handy for a large site 
I'm working on right now.

Thanks a bunch :)

~Shelly
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