Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 02/02/08 04:26

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Chris <spam_me_not@goaway.com>
writing in news:47a3a23a$0$14083$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com:

> I've got a puzzling problem.
>
> We have multiple sites that use the same large css file. I just make a
> copy of it for each site. For each site, though, I'd like to customize
a
> couple small things like link color.
>
> I could just edit each copy of the css file, but that would make it
hard
> to maintain when I want a change to appear in all sites.
>
> The ideal solution would be to use an <include> in the css file:
>
> my-big-file.css would be:
>
> #mystyle {
> whatever:10px;
> }
><include include="my-custom-css.css">
>
> Then for each site, "my-custom-css.css" could be different.
>
> The obvious solution here is to break it up into two different css
files
> and include both in every page in every site. This would affect a lot
of
> pages unnecessarily, though, and would be cumbersome if I ever had to
> break it into 2, 3, or 4 small css files. A single include statement
in
> one file would be a lot cleaner.
>
> Is there some way to do this kind of include?

Separate style from color - one stylesheet that only does positioning,
etc., and another that does color. For example:

Site A:
<link type="text/css" href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link type="text/css" href="style_site_a.css" rel="stylesheet>

Site B:
<link type="text/css" href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link type="text/css" href="style_site_b.css" rel="stylesheet>

Etcetera, etcetera, etecetera (10 points for the source).
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