What is the purpose of @import directive in CSS? 2

[EugenePaliev]

Hi all!

Why do we use @import in CSS? I've seen it on Macromedia, W3C and other sites. Why to use it?

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[rockyroad]

Hi

this is just another way of linking to an external style sheet, much like LINK. here's an article outlining this,

http://home.att.net/~knoblock/cookbook/Import_Style.html

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[ChrisHunt]

It's often used when you want to make your website backward-compatible. NS4.x doesn't understand @import commands, so it ignores them. Therefore, if you have any CSS that is going to fatally confuse NS4.x (and it's notoriously easy to confuse that browser with CSS) you can hide it in an @imported file.

Personally, I ythink NS4.x users are too small a group to bother about now.

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[EugenePaliev]

Thank you so much!

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