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_gail Posts: 2876 From: So FL Status: offline	Adding css to old sites - 8/18/2002 8:10:31 I think I read the answer to this somewhere, but can' t find or recall it. If I go back and add external cascading stylesheets to websites originally created without them, should I reformat all the text before doing so? Format > Remove Formatting thanks, gail


caz Posts: 3589 Joined: 10/10/2001 From: Somewhere south of Chester, UK Status: offline	RE: Adding css to old sites - 8/18/2002 8:19:26 Hi Gail Yes, this is what I had to do when introducing external stylesheets to an existing site. I do remember that I spent most of my time in HTML view identifying and removing left over formatting too. It' s very well worth it though. HTH Carol (in reply to _gail)


Spooky Posts: 26606 Joined: 11/11/1998 From: Middle Earth Status: offline	RE: Adding css to old sites - 8/18/2002 14:23:56 You may be able to do it without reformatting and just use a style with normal page elements <p><td> etc - but it is soooo much cleaner when you remove formatting and see how much code you have lost :) _____________________________ If you arent part of the solution, then there is good money to be made prolonging the problem ��k� Database / DRW help Check out the Tutorials for Frontpage Databases Forum FAQ' s Developers Edition Spooky Login User Registration and Management tool Personalized Frontpage Hosting (in reply to _gail)


paperfish Posts: 184 From: None Status: offline	RE: Adding css to old sites - 8/19/2002 7:35:46 A quick way to clean up a page is to highlight the entire page (Edit\ Select All) and then choose Format\ Remove Formatting. Sometimes this doesn' t do a 100% cleanup inside tables, but otherwise it does remove inline styles. And as Spooky says, be sure to define the standard styles in your CSS, such as p; H1; ul; etc. Good luck with the conversion (in reply to _gail)


_gail Posts: 2876 From: So FL Status: offline	RE: RE: Adding css to old sites - 8/21/2002 12:31:13 quote: ORIGINAL: Yes, this is what I had to do when introducing external stylesheets to an existing site. I do remember that I spent most of my time in HTML view identifying and removing left over formatting too. It' s very well worth it though. HTH Carol Thanks, Carol, Here' s what I' m unclear about. I' ve only used a css once. It was not created by me, someone made it for me. The css was only used to format text and hyperlink attributes. Can I use a css for text, but still do other formatting with FrontPage, such as the background color of a cell or table? thanks, gail (in reply to caz)

bobby

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RE: Adding css to old sites - 8/21/2002 13:03:50

Absolutely...

The CSS will only affect the styles you call out... and it will " cascade" which means that if you declare a style " in-line" or in the page code, it will override the CSS...

You can also define a style in your CSS for the table cels like this:

.blue {
background-color: #000099
}

Then in your table do this:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div class=" blue" >
...  stuff  ...
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table

Now if you want to change the color of all of your table cels, you can do so in your CSS file!!!

< Message edited by bobby -- 8/20/2002 1:04:22 PM >

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puiwaihin Posts: 1378 From: Taiwan Status: offline	RE: Adding css to old sites - 8/23/2002 19:16:56 When I went to remove alot of my formatting tags I used the Global find and replace option to take out code site-wide. Saved me hours of work. _____________________________ " Things are always darkest, just before it goes totally black." -Hannibal Smith (in reply to _gail)

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