Re: urgent CSS question

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 12:59 +0100, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > On 22/5/09 12:49, PJ wrote: > > Sorry, but no one suggested a mailing list for CSS and the W3 Schools > > Forum has problems. > > Actually, I did: > > http://www.css-discuss.org/ > > > Why do I get completely different formatting with two identical classes? > > I want to change part of the formatting on just one page on the site > > using the exact same class with some changes so I don't modify other > > pages. I copied div#frame to div#frame1 and changed the class on the > > page to id="frame1". But now the page no longer displays the formatting > > as with id="frame" - e.g.<p> produces 16px font-size instead of 12px. > > This description is confusing. Can you please link to a minimal test > case showing the problem you're talking about, so that we can view your > code and ideally probe it with DOM inspectors like Firebug? > > http://webkit.org/quality/reduction.html > > may help you produce one. > > In general, I'd suggest creating page-specific style variations by > sticking a class on the body (e.g. <body class="article"> ) and using > that as a hook to modify the styling of the class whose formatting you > want to be different. > > .thing { > font-weight: bold; > } > > .article .thing { > font-style: italic; > } > > for example. > > -- > Benjamin Hawkers-Lewis > That hook on the body tag is a good one, which I wish I'd thought of a few weeks back! I've been using PHP to pull in external stylesheets based on the current script name for a project I'm working on, as each page has unique tweaks on common elements. It's not like I don't even use selectors even now! Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk