Thanks for the input. I'm constantly freaking out about reusability. I'm writing my first ASP.Net aps, and .Net code is heavy enough without having to load a 50k stylesheet on top of it. I try to just multi-class tags, but sometimes that gets sloppy. I'll take a look into CSS-SSC and see if it's a workable solution.
Paul Kahl Web Developer "An object at rest cannot be stopped!" -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Levine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 2:50 PM To: Paul Kahl Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Calling a class within a class On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Paul Kahl wrote: > Is it possilble to do something like this: > > .clsBold {font-weight: bold;} > .clsItalic {font-style: italic;} > .clsRed {color: #F00;} > > .clsTitleDiv {clsBold; clsItalic; clsRed;} > > In other words, can I call a previously defined class inside > another class, > in some fashion, thus saving me time and code? > > I already know that I can stack classes inside a tag in this > fashion: [div > class="clsX clsY clsZ"][/div]. That's not really what I'm looking > for. I'm > looking for something that is handled purely inside the stylesheet. > I'm > hoping there's a greater way to do re-usability. > > ~Paul Kahl Paul, I'm afraid that you can't define blocks of CSS rules the way you described above. The closest thing would be more along these lines: .clsBold, .clsTitleDiv { font-weight: bold; } .clsItalic, .clsTitleDiv { font-style: italic; } .clsRed, .clsTitleDiv { color: #F00; } In this case, you get .clsTitleDiv sharing the same declarations as above without a separate rule. In general, however, I'd advise against spreading out a definition of a class like this unless it makes sense for it to inherit from multiple (mostly orthogonal) rules. As far as reusability goes in general, just make sure to keep your classes meaningful ("error" instead of "clsRed", for instance) and use a consistent style throughout your markup, and your CSS should be svelte. I rarely find that I'm repeating myself in CSS, other than perhaps reusing color values (across borders, backgrounds, and actual text color) and occasionally sizes. For these things, CSS-SSC might be a good tool if you're concerned about the way repetition can impact maintainability: http://www.shauninman.com/plete/2005/08/css-constants -- Matthew Levine, (http://www.infocraft.com/) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
