Defining CSS Properties

[Guest_imported]

Hello. I have been researching /playing with CSS for about a week now...i think i pretty much see how it works, although there are a couple things i'm curious about. For example, i was wondering, if when defining properties in the style sheet, are there any "best practices" or general order in which they are defined? Or does this make absolutely no difference?

 

[secretsquirrel]

i don't think there are any best practices for the order of css properties, but i usually try and seperate my classes from my redefined html tags, for ease of use when editing.

eg.

<STYLE>
BODY { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; }
TD { background-color: #FF0000; }

.bigText { font-size: 18px; }
.bigBlueText { font-size: 18px; color: #0000FF; }
</STYLE>


other than that i just try and make it look nice, so i can find what i want easily. if you have a particularly large set of styles, you could try seperating them into sections and add comments to them.

hope this helps,

ss...

 

[onpnt]

CSS has coding conventions just as any other language does. a good reference online or book with defined conventions is the best bet to stay in touch with this.
online ref.

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/css/quickref/css_intro.html

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