Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/12/07 15:23

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> I have a tendency to do the same, in HEAD put page specific styles. One
> note though is when your make a dramatic site-wide style change these
> little on-page exceptions may bite you in the end!

Exactly.

Say your site's entire colour scheme is green. As you publish mostly prose
and only have one page that contains any tabular data, you simply add the
following styling information to the HEAD of that one page:

TH { background: #060; color: white; }

A few months later, you decide to change the site's colour scheme to
purple. You've long forgotten about the page with the green table, which
now looks strangely at odds with the rest of the site's design.

If you'd put it in the main style sheet, then you would have noticed it
and updated it with the rest of the stylesheet changes.

Generally speaking, I think all colour scheme and font family stuff should
probably be kept centrally for this reason, even if you only plan on using
it on one page.

Certain things like making particular page-specific classes bold or
italics *may* be better in the document HEAD. An inline style attribute is
almost never a good option, but often must be resorted to in the case of
crummy CMSes.

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