ordering of different style sheets, is it important?

does it matter in which order i place different style sheets
i.e.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen"
href="style/screen.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="style/print.css"
/>

is this better than this

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="style/print.css"
/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen"
href="style/screen.css" />

I ask because when viewing the a site in the browsers it doesn't seem to
matter but when editing the page in dreamweaver it displyas only my print
stylesheet so editing the site is difficult.

Phil

"Phil Thompson" <phil (AT) xweb (DOT) freeserveSPAM.co.uk> wrote

does it matter in which order i place different style sheets
i.e.
link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen"
href="style/screen.css" /
link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print"
href="style/print.css"
/

is this better than this

link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print"
href="style/print.css"
/
link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen"
href="style/screen.css" /

I ask because when viewing the a site in the browsers it doesn't seem to
matter but when editing the page in dreamweaver it displyas only my print
stylesheet so editing the site is difficult.

Phil


Specificity moves upwards; styles defined in code have a higher priority

than styles written inline, which have a higher priority than linked or
imported styles. Where more than one stylesheet is linked or imported, the
one lower down in the code has the higher priority. You still have to watch
inheritance, and (I believe) some version 4 browsers ignore a rule totally
where there is a conflict in two different style sheets.

None of which, of course, answers your question! The real answer, assuming
you use Dreamweaver MX, is to look in the Dreamweaver help for 'Using Design
Time style sheets'.

HTH,

Pete.
--

Derby
UK

"Phil Thompson" <phil (AT) xweb (DOT) freeserveSPAM.co.uk> wrote:

does it matter in which order i place different style sheets

In general it does, since the order of rules is relevant in the cascade.
But in your case it does not, since the two <link> elements have different
and mutually exclusive media attributes. In any given situation, at most
one of the style sheets is used by the browser.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

In article <bkkufk$nte$1$8302bc10 (AT) news (DOT) demon.co.uk> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Peter Connolly
<noemailrequired (AT) nospamrequired (DOT) com> wrote:

Specificity moves upwards; styles defined in code have a higher priority
than styles written inline, which have a higher priority than linked or
imported styles. Where more than one stylesheet is linked or imported, the
one lower down in the code has the higher priority. You still have to watch
inheritance, and (I believe) some version 4 browsers ignore a rule totally
where there is a conflict in two different style sheets.

None of which, of course, answers your question!

Did you miss the fact that the two linked style sheets had non-
overlapping media specifications? In that case I don't think it
makes any difference which order they occur in.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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