Sorting styles list

Question

Is there any way to sort the styles list that is in the
properties panel so that it reflects the order in the style sheet?
Or possibly alphabetically? It would be a lot easier to find a
style and apply it.
Thanks

Answer 1

If you have that many styles that appear in the list, then
you are probably
not using CSS optimally.
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>
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> Is there any way to sort the styles list that is in the
properties panel
> so
> that it reflects the order in the style sheet? Or
possibly alphabetically?
> It
> would be a lot easier to find a style and apply it.
>
> Thanks
>