Call one .css from another

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Hi all

Newbie type question so please be gentle.

Is it possible to call one .css from another and would that be preferable to having two .css called from the same document?

TIA

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Chris
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[Foamcow]

Yes it's possible.
I don't think it's preferable one way or the other.

Personally, for clarity, I would call them via HTML link tags.


You can use the following within your CSS though if you wish

@import url("otherstyles.css");

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Foamcow

Thanks for your reply.

If there was a significant performance benefit, whereabouts, in the primary .css, would your code be placed?

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[johnwm]

Depends on which one you want to take precedence. If 2 sheets reference the same item, the later one overwrites the earlier.

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[Foamcow]

As Johnwm says. It depends on what you're doing since you must consider the "cascade" whereby rules will be appended/overwritten.

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

johnwm, foamcow

Thanks for your replies.

The content of each .css would be entirely different, covering different elements of the documents.

The main one would be generic and static, ie fonts, styles etc.

The secondary one would be built on the fly together with its relevant HTML documents by a user interacting with a database application running on a local machine.

Once the new HTML pages and new secondary .css file had been programatically built and checked by the user, they would be uploaded to the website by FTP, overwriting redundant server side documents.

The question really concerns any performance gain there might be from either method.

Hope that explains the perhaps peculiar question.

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[Vragabond]

I have not heard of any performance benefits or downfalls to any of the methods. I would've chosen the link method Foamcow prefers as well.

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