can this be done?

Is there a quick (easy) way to take an existing page and generate a css page to
replicate the appearance of said page?

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Harvey Waxman
Harvey Products makers of Dinghy Dogs�
The Boater's Best Friend
http://www.dinghydogs.com

Do you mean CSS-P using css for positioning to replace tables? i doubt it.

Do you mean CSS for style info, to replace <font> and similar tags?
Yes-Kind of.

There are dedicated CSS editors- like TopStyle and others- that can read and
evaluate a page- and replace font tags with css.

also- there's a program/project called HTMLTidy that can strip font tags and
put in styles. There's an extension for windows/dreamweaver, and a plugin
for bbedit/mac
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/special/extensions/#dmx_tidy
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

TopStyle works on pages or Sitewide- html tidy will work on pages. You can
batch files thru Tidy- but each file will have it's own set of styles in the
head instead of a single external stylesheet. Tidy is valuable for it's
syntax checking regardless though.

Some folks resort to the brute force method- a Regular Expression find and
replace to strip all font tags- then a basic stylesheet that redefines the
body, p , h ,and td tags to cover 98% of the content- and then looking at
the page to see what exceptions should have other classes applied.

Find: in source: </?font[^>]*>
Replace: leave blank.
Put a checkmark in "use RegExp"
NOTE- if site uses templates or library items- run this search pattern on
the templates and library item first- otherwise dw might hit an endless loop
trying to change a locked area.

Is there a quick (easy) way to take an existing page and generate a css page
to
replicate the appearance of said page?

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Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer

In article <BB3CE2D9.13DF46%blu (AT) formdude (DOT) com>, Alan Ames <blu (AT) formdude (DOT) com>
wrote:

Do you mean CSS-P using css for positioning to replace tables? i doubt it.

Do you mean CSS for style info, to replace <font> and similar tags?
Yes-Kind of.

thanks a lot.

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Harvey Waxman
Harvey Products makers of Dinghy Dogs(TM)
The Boater's Best Friend
http://www.dinghydogs.com