ChenXiu Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Because my CSS files are small, they are located in the <head> of my pages (not linked as a stylesheet). Best Practices Question: Should each page have ONLY the CSS rules necessary for that page? -or- Should the exact same <head><style>css rules</style></head> be duplicated across every page (even when some of the pages don't need all the rules)? Simplistic example: page1.html has four elements: paragraph, table, button, and a footer. page2.html only has two elements: paragraph and a footer (but no table and no button). Should both page1.html and page2.html have CSS rules for all four elements (paragraph, table, button, and footer)? Or should page2.html omit the two CSS rules it doesn't need? I would think it's best to be conservative and ONLY include CSS rules necessary for the page. But I wonder if browser caching improves when you "keep things the same" across your pages. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Your company hires a firm of expensive marketing consultants who dictate that the main colours in you site's pages should now be pink and lime green. Would you rather alter one css file for the whole site? alter every page in the site individually? resign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChenXiu Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Barand said: resign haha -- I'll resign THEM if they want my pages pink and lime green :-) Thank you, your point is well taken. Even when making the most minor change, so much time is wasted scrolling up to, and searching for, the CSS rule in my <head><style>, and then returning back to the code portion... and then having to do that for every page. Having just ONE page of CSS rules, and then just using PHP "require" would speed things up by not having to make individual page changes. Regarding browser caching... I wonder if you jump from a 50 CSS rule page, to a 20 CSS rule page, and then from there to a 50 CSS rule page if that slows things down. (I'm going to guess browsers don't cache individual rules.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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