including css

[squiblo]

hi, i am just wondering, what is the better option...

 

this...

<link href="./footlink_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

 

or this...

<style><?php include("./footylinks_style.css"); ?></style> 

 

please give your reasons, thank you

[RussellReal]

<link href="./footlink_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

 

this since it looks neater, however, there are certain advantages to having css in the same file, if you link a css file in a deeper directory you might have problems with background images etc, so including the css into the file which is executing will make the paths correct.

 

for example:

 

blah.com/css/whatever.css

but the file is blah.com/whatever.php

 

and u include it like this:

 

'css/whatever.css'

 

and inside the css you have background-image: url('images/lala.gif');

 

that background will try for css/images/lala.gif instead of images/lala.gif