Comments on: Tips for Coding Better CSS – Part I

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:55:53 +0000

Wow, great tips. I’m going on to the next article now. I especially like the global *. I didn’t know about that, but I think that would save a lot of pain. Thanks!

By: Tips For Coding Better CSS - Part II | Design Adaptations

Tips For Coding Better CSS - Part II | Design Adaptations — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:46:18 +0000

[...] week, in Part I of this set, I talked about small but significant ways to optimize your CSS. In this article I suggest some methods for keeping your CSS organized. While some of the tips here [...]

By: Charity

Charity — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:19:23 +0000

Sure Tara! Every little bit helps right? ;)

By: Tara

Tara — Sat, 19 May 2007 08:04:01 +0000

Love your tip about how to remember top right bottom left (see I remember already!) I was wondering how I would get that to stay in my head. Thanks

By: Quick and Easy Tools For Optimizing Your CSS | Design Adaptations

Quick and Easy Tools For Optimizing Your CSS | Design Adaptations — Fri, 18 May 2007 23:59:33 +0000

[...] you read my article on tips for optimizing your stylesheets, you may already be putting some of those things into practice. Here then, are a few nifty (and [...]

By: Charity

Charity — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:03:58 +0000

What do you know, I’m in the same situation! I can’t find the original source where I read that tip. I thought it was something I saw long ago in one of my CSS books, but now I can’t be sure. If you ever remember where that article was, please drop me a line. I’d be curious to read it.

By: Paul Enderson

Paul Enderson — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:29:41 +0000

OK. I get that now you’ve pointed it out! I do remember reading a while ago, an article that said that measurement type *should* always be specified…

I can’t find it now (of course), but I have a funny feeling that it was something to do how browsers make use of CSS when printing a page. I wish I’d bookmarked it!

By: Charity

Charity — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:35:32 +0000

You’re right Paul! Specifying 0 is common and often necessary, and I see now that maybe I wasn’t very clear on that first tip. I was trying to suggest that a unit of measurement with 0 is unnecessary. So declaring {margin:0PX;} only needs to be declared as {margin:0;}. Does that makes sense? If you take another gander at the code you linked, you’ll notice there’s no specific unit attached to any of the zero values – they’re just zero. :) Sorry if that was confusing.

By: Paul Enderson

Paul Enderson — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:12:26 +0000

Actually, sometimes there is a valid reason to specify a zero value – if it’s to reset a particular browser’s styling.

See this for more info: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset