Re: your thoughts on applying multiple stylesheets to a page

William Gill wrote:

I have a main stylesheet that I apply to all pages in a site, they each
sub-section has a subsection stylesheet that either overrides or applies
new style to pages in that subsection, then finally each page in a
subsection may need even more fine tuning.

In the past I would use <link href="page.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">, then in page.css I would import section.css, and
section.css would import main.css.

I am looking at changing to multiple link tags like:
link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
link href="section.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
link href="page.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"

Assuming I am careful to consider the cascade, is there anything I
should be careful of using this method to apply multiple stylesheets?

The issue with multiple stylesheets, is that each one has to be fetched.
three links will give the browser the opportunity to fetch them in
parallel, will help some, but the overhead is still heavy.

Include the page stuff in the page or into the session file.

Then probably use one link to the section css file which would contain
the main.css stuff repeated for each.

If the main is large and the section one tiny I might use two links, but
I prefer to use one. That way I can see it all the CSS in one place.

The overhead of sending css to the browser that is not used in a page,
is tiny, if the css is reused in later pages.

Also, what are the implications of using or not using a common title
attribute?

What? The title attribute provides text that appears as a tool tip to

the user, for various durations, in some browsers, and not at all in
other browsers. Not a CSS issue.

Regards

Ian

Ian Hobson wrote:

The overhead of sending css to the browser that is not used in a page,
is tiny, if the css is reused in later pages.

Agreed. Caching is A Good Thing.

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William Gill wrote:

Ian Hobson wrote:

What? The title attribute provides text that appears as a tool tip

Actually use of the title attribute designates a stylesheet as
preferred.

You didn't make it clear you were referring to the stylesheet title. I
also read your original question as a more general inquiry about the
title attribute.

I did
read something about setting title to the same value in several link
elements combines the sheets into one,

Yes, that's true.

which might impact the cascade,
but it's not obvious to me how or if it really does.

It does. All stylesheets with the same title are considered one, so
cascading does happen. IE doesn't support alternate stylesheets, of
course, but other browsers do.

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, William Gill wrote:

I did read something about setting title to the same value
in several link elements combines the sheets into one,
which might impact the cascade, but it's not obvious to me
how or if it really does.

See http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...nnotation.html
for an example.

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ian Hobson wrote:

The title attribute provides text that appears as a tool tip to the
user, for various durations, in some browsers, and not at all in other
browsers. Not a CSS issue.

LINK can have a TITLE attribute;
see http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/cs...-html.html#ex1

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