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How do you refer to more than one .css file in html?

Answer 1

+4 A:

Yes (you could have tried that ;-)

ChristopheD 2010-03-24 20:14:37

Answer 2

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Yes. Just use multiple link elements.

Note, however, that it isn't very efficient and it is generally better to combine all your stylesheets into a single file.

David Dorward 2010-03-24 20:14:43

Do you have references for this?

Renesis 2010-03-24 20:18:05

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html / http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#CombineExternalCSS

David Dorward 2010-03-24 20:21:18

The server is having to stat, open, and transmit multiple files. There's a little bit of overhead in doing this. Browsers use keep-alive connections now so multiple files are sent over one network connection. Originally HTTP requests only fetched one file, so you had the overhead of establishing a connection for each file. In the days of HTTP 1.0 multiple files incurred large (by comparison) overhead. HTTP 1.1 and keep-alive greatly reduced it, but not completely.

Erik Nedwidek 2010-03-24 20:27:34

Answer 3

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Yes, and the order of precedence for rules will follow the basic CSS precedence ruleset, and later rules overwrite earlier rules if they specify the same attributes.

You might want to read this article on specificity.

Stefan Kendall 2010-03-24 20:15:24

Answer 4

+1 A:

you can also use @import inside other style sheets.

@import url("site.css");

Hugh 2010-03-24 20:16:55

+1 I generally prefer this method. (There are, of course, exceptions.)

Michael Itzoe 2010-03-24 20:30:11

I wouldn't recommended @import. 1.) older browsers don't understand it, 2.) @import rules can cause resources to not get downloaded in the order specified in IE (where you have 3 or more) (note IE has a built in limit of 31 (either way))

scunliffe 2010-03-31 18:17:52

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