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Anyone else having Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 04 issues concerning having style sheets applied to all font? This is driving me nuts anyway to turn this off?.. I am having to go back and hand code font styles.





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Cascading style sheets are set up to do just that - cascade. In other words if you create a paragraph style like this

.p {

padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 10px;

}

and then put it into the head section of your document or link to it as an external file, everytime you put in a paragraph or create a div with the class "p" these styles are going to be applied to it. The best way to override them are to style each paragraph locally, that is if you want one paragraph to be one thing and one to be another you have to override the styles above within each paragraph. You can also have different styles for different paragraphs i.e. p1 has one style and p2 has another style which is the way you should do it. But if you don't differentiate, DW will apply styles to all of the tags within that class.

Hope that helps,

Kaiman

Glenwood Springs, CO - Website Design and Graphics

Yup. All you need to do is learn how to write CSS rules properly. The basics are:

div { }
Applies to all HTML DIV tags

#Navigation { }
Applies to the single element with id="Navigation". (You can't give 2 elements the same ID)

.SomeStyle { }
Applies to all elements with class="SomeStyle" - You can give any number of elements the same class. You can give one element multiple classes by seperating them with spaces, i.e. class="Style1 Style2"

You can combine the selectors too:
div.MyStyle { }
will apply to only DIVs that have a calss of MyStyle i.e.
<div class="MyStyle"></div>
But not:
<p class="MyStyle"></p>

never had this problem with dreamweaver. sometimes you have to clean up the code manually, if you've been adding css styles via the property inspector. dreamweaver doesn't always remove the css tags when you do so through the property inspector...