Re: [css-d] Inline styles and the people who hate them.

2006-02-03 Thread Martin Heiden
Troy, on Friday, February 3, 2006 at 04:30 Troy Brophy wrote: Now, the wonderful thing about this app is that it has dozens of pages with unique designs. Each of these unique designs requires many elements to be positioned, floated, padded, margined, bordered or backgrounded uniquely. This

Re: [css-d] Inline styles and the people who hate them.

2006-02-03 Thread Ian Anderson
Martin Heiden wrote: If you have too many rules, you can add page level external css-files. Personally, I cannot see the purpose in having page-level external files in addition to shared group-wide or site-wide files, except for one thing: media types. If you link to external style sheets you

Re: [css-d] Inline styles and the people who hate them.

2006-02-03 Thread James Conley
I prefer having an [external] css file for each page because 1) VS.Net [for some strange reason] gives me CSS IntelliSense and CSS designer support when css is either in an inline-style tag or in a .css file but *NOT* when the css is put into a style/style tag set in the HEAD of a document. The

[css-d] Inline styles and the people who hate them.

2006-02-02 Thread Troy Brophy
Sorry about the sensationalist subject line. I couldn't resist. For the past six months I've been building a massive, consumer Web application. I took over the development from a guy who was keen on standards-compliant XHTML (yay!) and keeping every style rule in an external CSS document (kinda

Re: [css-d] Inline styles and the people who hate them.

2006-02-02 Thread Jan Brasna
to open the HTML (actually .JSP) file, find the element in question, grab the class name, then open the associated CSS doc, search for the class name and finally make the change. (And of course, the requests are seldom so simple, which means the fixes tend to involve a lot more scrolling

Re: [css-d] Inline styles and the people who hate them.

2006-02-02 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/2/06, Troy Brophy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This worked great up until I hit line 6000 of the external CSS doc and Dreamweaver started choking a little each time I saved. I'm surprised you waited so long! Then I began grouping pages of the site into sections and creating CSS docs for