On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Barney Carroll wrote:
Kelemen Viktor wrote:
Dear All!
I've just read the following: CSS Coding standards v0.2 by Andy
Peatling
(http://www.cssdev.com/docs/css_guidelines.pdf)
It describes a special file structure which has to do with
global.css <- structure.css, text.css, theme.css and so on
My question is that: is this method is usefully and fundamental or
just
fancy?
is there better article?
Thanks in advance
Viktor
I use a similar approach and find it very useful.
On my current project I have a stylesheets.css importing layout.css,
typography.css, and presentation.css.
I differ from Andy in that I prefer to have items described, as far as
possible, in only one place. Presentation is the exception, in that
all
the elements it describes have some kind of layout or typographical
information attached to them - but everything static relating to text,
including metrics like padding and margin, go into typography.css.
However, whereas nearly all my typographic elements have colour by
default and that is something I define in typography.css, context can
change this and I will do things like [.members p.em
{color:red} .public
p.em {color:blue}] in presentation.css.
At the end of the day this stuff has to be highly personal, because
everyone works in different ways and finds different attitudes
easier to
deal with.
For my part I find it fantastic for large files because any
positioning
problem will be to do with layout.css, text will be controlled by
typography.css and contextual colours etc will be in presentation.css.
The way I work it would drive me crazy to have to go through a few
different css files to get what I want, it's easier for me to know
that if I want to change the color, or size, etc of an h1 I only have
to go to one place in the css file.
I do try and group stuff logically within that though, putting all of
my H elements by each other, "left column" container right near the
"list column navigation" div. Stuff like that.
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