tl;dr:
Probably best to rely on the advice already given, but here are some
soon-to-be-historical details.
On 1/19/15, 11:47 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
http://pastebin.com/B9zSx0ew <http://pastebin.com/B9zSx0ew>
When I submit a copy of the code to http://validator.w3.org I get
the error message as relating to line 234. That line contains the
start tag of a style element: <style type="text/css">.
Which might actually be able to live there, depending upon your attitude
toward the standard and other details.
By HTML rules, a style element may appear only in the head part. In
practice, browsers appear it inside the body element as well, with
no difference in effect. This explains why the page works.
In the dialects of HTML4, this is exactly right, as is the (snipped)
succeeding advice to put your most important styles last to guard
against conflicts resolved in undesirable ways.
If you rely entirely on the W3C's definitions with respect to HTML5, as
does its validator, then this advice is also correct.
HOWEVER...
There are such things as scoped styles, though I get the sense that they
appear to be on the way out as Official Things:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-style-element
http://caniuse.com/#feat=style-scoped
They were also included in earlier iterations of the W3C's HTML5 standard.
Details go on from there, but suffice to say that scoped styles lend
themselves to the same sort of abuse as style attributes, and incur
great resource expense.
--
Ben Henick lurker...@henick.net
Sitebuilder At-Large t:@bhenick
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