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bad practice to compound styles?

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Nov 16.2006

Hey I have a 2 part question.

I was wondering about setting a style to one thing in the general css and then setting additional properties in the IE only css sheet?

For example in the general css sheet (applies/read by all browsers):

[CODE]body { background-color:#000000; }[/CODE]

And in the IE only css sheet (applies/read by IE only):

[CODE]body { scrollbar-track-color: #000000; }[/CODE]

Part 1) will the second simply overwrite the first or will both apply within IE?
Part 2) is it a good idea?

Assuming you understand my question let me know your thoughts.

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@ray326Nov 16.2006 — 
  • 1. Both

  • 2. Not on my browser
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    @KravvitzNov 16.2006 — BluegillMedia, I suggest you learn about the [url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#cascade]cascade[/url].

    Ray, if you don't like the scrollbar colors (which I can understand), than why don't you use a user stylesheet to force them to be their defaults?
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    @BluegillMediaauthorNov 16.2006 — Ok just for the record my question was about whether compounding styles is a good idea, not about scrollbar colours.

    So for example if I want that an extra style property in IE and not is FF is it better to put that style definition in both my FF and IE style sheets (and just write the FF with 1 style and the FF with 2) or is it better to put it (the first) in my ALL style sheet and then add the addtion (the second) in my IE style sheet.

    so 1 tag in the FF sheet and 2 in the IE sheet

    or

    1 tag in the ALL sheet and 1 in the IE sheet (so the IE would see both but not FF).

    Make sense?
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    @ray326Nov 17.2006 — Ray, if you don't like the scrollbar colors (which I can understand), than why don't you use a user stylesheet to force them to be their defaults?[/QUOTE]Well, Fx doesn't allow it anyway so no need.
    Make sense?[/QUOTE]Yeah, but just put it all in one sheet with IE conditionals. Of course it doesn't matter at all if it's a proprietary style that only IE will see anyway.
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