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04-01-2007, 03:07 AM

Kristien

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I was considering doing this. Making a blank .html and .css stylesheet so I dont have to keep re-entering the same elements I use over and over again.

ex.

Code:

<div id="wrapper">
<div id="navigation">

Code:

body{
background: #FFF;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

#footer{
background: #FFF;
}

And stuff like that. I was just wondering if anyone else does this.

04-01-2007, 03:15 AM

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I don't do that simply because CSS depends on the particular design it is being used for. The few styles that you may actually be able to reuse (for the most part) are so minimal that typing them out each time is really no big deal. Plus if you defined a whole bunch of things that you think are standard but don't use them for a particular design, you're going to end up either a) leaving the styles in your CSS anyways and bloating the code or b) spending the time to remove them which would take just as long as starting from scratch.

04-01-2007, 03:31 AM

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http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=463226

I posted about this a while ago, read the topic. I don't know if they actually posted something though.