Any way to single out unused CSS styles, for deletion?

Question

Any way to gather a list of all CSS styles in a given
stylesheet that are no
longer being used by any files in a given website, so they
can be purged?

Answer 1

Please submit this to the development team -
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
However, if you have so many custom classes that you have to
worry about
this, then you are not using CSS effectively -
In general, you don't need many custom classes. And, in fact,
they
make your life more difficult when you come back to maintain
the page a year
later. As Micha said, use ID selectors and create descendent
selector
rules, for example -
#maintable { .... }
#maintable td { .... }
#maintable td table { ... }
each of those rules would apply explicitly to a) this table -
<table id="maintable">,
and b) this cell -
<table id="maintable">
<tr>
<td>...</td>
</tr>
</table> (and all others in that table),
and to this table -
<table id="maintable">
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Then you could use this rule -
#maintable table td.special { .... }
to apply to this cell explicitly -
<table id="maintable">
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td class="special">this one</td>
<td>but not this one</td>
<td class="special">this one</td>
<td>but not this one</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Make sense?
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"Mike J.S." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Any way to gather a list of all CSS styles in a given
stylesheet that are
> no longer being used by any files in a given website, so
they can be
> purged?
>