At 3:54 PM -0400 9/22/08, Anne E . Shroeder wrote: >I've been asked to assist in correcting CSS problems and adjusting >display issues in a fairly complex database system; I had posted >about this before, asking about the Yahoo grid CSS generator. >However, upon further discussion with the developers I found that >they are also using the Zend framework and Jquery to generate a lot >of their code. The result is some pretty unsemantic markup, awful >awful classitis (whcih they insist is needed because of the >functions called by jquery), and really long winded CSS files. > >Initially I thought the best method would be to simply take the >comps and redevelop the basic markup and CSS and have the >programmers retrofit this to their code. But when I found out about >ongoing code generation, I realized this is prob. not a good method. >So it seems now I need to go in and do surgery - piece by piece. > >Does anyone have experience with this, and any advice they can >offer. I hate not fixing the markup; it's such a mess. But I >believe my hands are tied here. > >Anne
Anne: If it were me, I would reset all the conflicting css calls by simply redefining them and making my css the last css file loaded. This would only require you to place your css load in the last position in the <head> portion of each page. If that makes sense. For example, if the other style sheets have a div named "content" and they are conflicting or in some way not doing what they should, then redefine "content" as you want in your css and have it load last in the head block. Now, this should not be as complicated as it might seem because most involved sites use includes for their header, footer and other such "common-to-all" files. So, if it was one of my sites, one line of code would change everything. In any event, that's the world accordingly to tedd. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
