[WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-28 Thread Bruce Gilbert
is there any standard way to set up the flow of a style sheet? I usually try and use just one style sheet and start with global elements such as body, p, table, li etc. followed by elements as they flow on a page from header to footer. I use one stylesheet even though with a large site, this can

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-28 Thread Neil Patel
I tend to divide my style sheets into smaller files. For example, I usually put only basic layout in one file, i.e. layout.css, the general text formatting styles in another, and then the colors for the entire site in a colors.css file. On 5/28/05, Bruce Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-28 Thread Dave O'Brien
I tend to clear all the browser defaulted styles at the top in one large grouped rule. I then set out all the divisions with their ID's, in the order they appear in the xhtml eg: div#top { } div#middle { } div#bottom { } Underneath this I would work though all the rules focusing within one

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-28 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Sat, 28 May 2005 17:10:14 +0100, Bruce Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any standard way to set up the flow of a style sheet? I usually try and use just one style sheet and start with global elements such as body, p, table, li etc. followed by elements as they flow on a page from

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-28 Thread standards
Hi Dave, Quick question. Is there a reason for naming your selector div#top instead of #top? Please advise... Kind regards, Mario S. Cisneros I tend to clear all the browser defaulted styles at the top in one large grouped rule. I then set out all the divisions with their ID's, in the

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-28 Thread standards
I completely concur Kornel. Also, I prefer to use one master.css file to control my entire site, and create additional stylesheets that based on a pages specific requirements (i.e. print-friendly, forms, etc.). In addition, I use comments in my master.css file extensively and divide my master

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-28 Thread Kim Kruse
Hi Kornel, Stylesheets compress wonderfully. Enable gzip transfer encoding for them (but if you do it in PHP or alike, you'll have to send cache headers and implement cache validators, otherwise clients will re-download stylesheets). How do you do that? Kim

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-28 Thread Neil Patel
http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2003/03/28/compressing-webpages-for-fun-and-profit/ On 5/28/05, Kim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kornel, Stylesheets compress wonderfully. Enable gzip transfer encoding for them (but if you do it in PHP or alike, you'll have to send cache