Is it considered bad practice to to have ANY style items outside of my css files?

For instance - I have, say, <span class="error" style="margin:10px 10px">. Simply because I have a spot where I want one specific error message to display a little differently. Does this look unprofessional? Should I create an "error2" class for this?

Inline styles are rarely necessary, and it will be cleaner to put those inline styles in an external CSS file. You CAN apply more than one class to an element. So put that 'extra' styling in a separate class and combine the classes - like this:

.error2{margin: 10px;}
<span class="error error2">

Its not 'wrong' it will still validate but as ladynred said its not really needed.

Suppose its a matter of opinion, as long as it validates it does not bother me how the coder has done it.

The only time I use inline style is when i use JavaScript to change the style...

Originally Posted by LadynRed

Inline styles are rarely necessary, and it will be cleaner to put those inline styles in an external CSS file. You CAN apply more than one class to an element. So put that 'extra' styling in a separate class and combine the classes - like this:

.error2{margin: 10px;}
<span class="error error2">

Ahhh, I didn't know I could combine classes like that! Thanks for the help.