CSS: Final tips
- Printing styles
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- More about precedence
- We added the print style sheet after the general style sheet above because order in style sheets matters. Style definitions that take place last will take precedence over earlier ones. This allows us to have otherwise-conflicting styles. The last one takes effect. When not printing, only the “all” style sheet is used. When printing, the “print” style sheet is used in addition to the “all” sheet. Any conflicting…
- Watch your changes
- Be careful, when making changes, that you are not relying on some settings that are not CSS dependent. For example, when setting a foreground or background color, you should also set the other. Otherwise you run the risk that the user has a foreground color that matches your background color, or vice-versa.
- Good design helps
- Much of this is useful even with poorly designed web pages. But well-designed web pages make it much easier to take advantage of style sheets later on. Because we know that a blockquote following a level 1 headline is always a special quote, we can change the special quote’s appearance in all reviews, without making any changes to our HTML files at all. Only a small change in the single CSS file is required. But if we don’t know that,…
