CSS Syle Character Limitation

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12 total messages Started by Katie_O_Connell Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:20

#53

Author: Katie_O_Connell
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:20

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For better or worse, I'm working CSS style names that are longer than 12 characters � the limit that I can see of the style name in the CSS styles palette.

Having JUST upgraded to GoLive CS version from version 5.x, it's now impossible to distinguish the choices that I have when selecting a style from the palette since the first 10 or 11 characters of the name may be identical (example: bodytext1011400, bodytext1011600, bodytext1011250).

There needs to be a way to INCREASE the width of the style label field. At the moment, it stays fixed at 12 characters, regardless of how wide I make the window.

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#54

Author: Murray
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:58

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I'm very curious why you are using custom classes for this and not just 
using the cascade of rules into that text?

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Murray
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Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#63

Author: Katie_O_Connell
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:01

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Murray - I have NO idea to what you're referring ... maybe I'm just not using the CSS feature correctly?

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

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Author: Murray
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:06

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You are using -

bodytext1011400, bodytext1011600, bodytext1011250

as custom class names.  Please tell me what 1011400 and 1011600 refer to, 
and then I'll know how to answer your question.

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Murray
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Adobe Community Expert (Dreamweaver)

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#65

Author: JohnDonaldson
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:20

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      bodytext1011400, bodytext1011600, bodytext1011250




Those sorts of class names are frequently generated by back-end systems.

Unfortunately, there isn't any way to change what can be viewed in the CSS palette.

John

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#72

Author: Katie_O_Connell
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:55

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Murry -

It's my own coding system for what the text looks like. For example, bodytext1011400 means that it's 10 pixel-spaced-on-11 pixels with a block of 400 pixels that will be used in the body (as opposed to a header or subheader).

I'm finding the CSS palette in the most recent version of GoLive to be quite confusing ... I'm sure that I'm doing this all wrong.

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#73

Author: Michael_Ahgren
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:34

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Katie,

You might want to switch to context based CSS instead of style based.

Let's say that you one day decide (or your client decide) that the text should be 11px and the block 350px. In that scenario those names would be very confusing.

Another way of doing it is to use names like "firstParagraph", "leftColumn", "copyRightText","productText", etc...which makes it easier to understand and to maintain, especially if somebody else would need to work on those pages.

Just a thought�

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#74

Author: Katie_O_Connell
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:54

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Thanks, Michael. Actually, I used to use descriptive names such as you've shown, but found that, when going back to update a client site a year later (for example), I would not remember what the parameters were of "firstParagraph," etc. That's why I switched to naming styles in a way that literally defined the typesize, spacing and block parameters.

If I had to revise text / resize a block or whatever, I'd create a new style class.

Of course, the newer versions of GL have a preview so perhaps it's no longer an issue.

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#75

Author: Michael_Ahgren
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:23

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      If I had to revise text / resize a block or whatever, I'd create a new
      style class.




Sound like a lot of work, if the class is used in hundreds of places...

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

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Author: Murray
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:52

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Yeah - I definitely agree.

I use the cascade much more - my stylesheets contain very few custom 
classes.  Perhaps 2 or 3 at the most, e.g.,

.closer { clear:both; line-height:0; height:0; font-size:0; }
p.firstletter { font-size:24px; color:red; }

like that.

The rest of my rules are like this -

#bodyContent h1 { ... }
#sideBarRight { ... }
#footer ul li { ... }

and so on.  I never have a problem remembering or discovering which rule 
controls which style.

Also, for what it's worth, there are two font weights recognized by the 
browsers - normal (100, I think), and bold (900, I think).  Those 
intermediate values are of no reliable use.

-- 
Murray
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Adobe Community Expert (Dreamweaver)

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#79

Author: Katie_O_Connell
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:53

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I'm sure that I'm probably using CSS in a manner that it wasn't intended, but my method has always worked for me so I haven't taken the time to try to investigate the "correct" way ...

Anyway, I appreciate the input and will keep all of your suggestions in mind.

Re: CSS Syle Character Limitation

#78

Author: Michael_Ahgren
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:00

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Katie, it's a limitation in GL so you are not doing anything wrong. Different things work for different people.

You might want to drop Adobe a line and ask them to extend the display area and GL's ability to handle long class and ID names...

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