css mess!

[onlinegamesplayer]

Hi
As some of you know, I don't know much! and am using dreamweaver for my site, without really knowing what I'm doing i've created several css style sheets, I think i may be able to do the formating I'm doing with just one, can I? and if so what do i need to do to put all of my seperate sheets into one?
any help would be greatly apprecitated.
Thanks

[onlinegamesplayer]

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[herkalees]

Of course, just take the contents of all of them, and stick them into one (or a new one). Then, just make sure all your pages have a link to it.

Do know, if you're combining style sheets and you have some property: value combinations that are the same, which ever is lower in the file will take precedence. Like this,

Say you have:
#leftCol {
width: 250px;
background-color: $ffc;
}

#leftCol {
width: 270px;
background-color: $ccc;
}

Then, your site will always show the lower set of values, because it is physically lower in the code.

You may not have repeating values, but it can be common when merging css files.

[onlinegamesplayer]

thanks a lot, think i've got that sorted now... what I'd like to do now is put borders around the whole pages with css, is it possible to do this with one div?

[jpmitchell]

Borders on the whole page, to make it like a frame? Yes it is possible.

Add to this to your body { }

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border: 5px solid #000000;

Make sure to set your size and color (the one above is 5px black). Now if you want it around any particular element, just use that property and you'll be set.

[minute44]

Originally Posted by jpmitchell

Borders on the whole page, to make it like a frame? Yes it is possible.

Add to this to your body { }

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border: 5px solid #000000;

Make sure to set your size and color (the one above is 5px black). Now if you want it around any particular element, just use that property and you'll be set.

No, if you've structured your page right it should have a "container" div which encompases everything else. Give THAT the border.

[jpmitchell]

minute thats what I was suggesting, but I had to suppose that some people don't do it correctly and add a container :-D

[masonbarge]

You can give the body a border.

[jpmitchell]

mason - that is what I said 3 posts ago... but that you can do it to a container as well, if needed (which would be more ideal).

[masonbarge]

Originally Posted by jpmitchell

mason - that is what I said 3 posts ago... but that you can do it to a container as well, if needed (which would be more ideal).

"That was then. Now is now." ~ Jerry Brown, former Governor of California