maincss.css style sheet

[Adrian Crum <ad...@yahoo.com>]

The maincss.css style sheet contains 11 styles starting with ".box" - I would like to see those go away. Here's why...

Long ago, those styles were combined to create screenlets. The problem was, some developers would use some of the .box styles to style things that were not screenlets (or screenlet elements). So, any attempt to restyle screenlets would unintentionally restyle unrelated screen elements.

Today, we do things differently - CSS styles style containers and their contained elements. For example, screenlet title bars have one style that styles all of its contained elements. The bottom line is, three styles (screenlet, screenlet-title-bar, screenlet-body) replace those previous 11 styles. So, it would be best to use the screenlet styles instead.

I'm not suggesting that we embark on a massive effort to remove those styles. Like before, just try to replace them when you come across them. In time, they can be removed from the maincss.css style sheet.

Let me know what you think.

-Adrian



      

Re: maincss.css style sheet

[Bruno Busco <br...@gmail.com>]

Adrian,
I came across the ".box" styles just yesterday when I was writing a new
maincss.css file.
After redefining the screenlet, screenlet-title-bar and screenlet-body there
was still some screen not correctly styled (like catalog main screen) and
then I did discover the .box styles.
I had to copy the rules to the .box also.
So definitively a +1 for this.

-Bruno

2008/7/11 Adrian Crum <ad...@yahoo.com>:

> The maincss.css style sheet contains 11 styles starting with ".box" - I
> would like to see those go away. Here's why...
>
> Long ago, those styles were combined to create screenlets. The problem was,
> some developers would use some of the .box styles to style things that were
> not screenlets (or screenlet elements). So, any attempt to restyle
> screenlets would unintentionally restyle unrelated screen elements.
>
> Today, we do things differently - CSS styles style containers and their
> contained elements. For example, screenlet title bars have one style that
> styles all of its contained elements. The bottom line is, three styles
> (screenlet, screenlet-title-bar, screenlet-body) replace those previous 11
> styles. So, it would be best to use the screenlet styles instead.
>
> I'm not suggesting that we embark on a massive effort to remove those
> styles. Like before, just try to replace them when you come across them. In
> time, they can be removed from the maincss.css style sheet.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> -Adrian
>
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>
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