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Thanks adobe for making true my feature request in CS4. You added two buttons for "more especific" and "less especific" in the "add new css rule" dialog…
Although, it doesn't go through ALL the posible combinations so I often don't find the class or ID I need and I end up typing it myself.
So a graphic interface for selecting the objects I WANT to match would be cool. Even better if I can select the elements I DON'T WANT to match as well.
A multiple element selection system should be enabled, and a new "select elements to match" button would enable the manual selection.
The more-especific and less-especific buttons are mostly used to find a tag/class combination that matches one or several
I wanted a more refined one, though, in which there are different drop down selects for each option, listing:
e.g. for the following code, and having selected elements #page-2 and #page-8, A NEW DROP DOWN select would display a list of the combinations that would match BOTH elements, ordered not by specificy but by number of matches.
<div id="maindiv">
     <ul id="list_one" class="left_column">
          <li class="linkone"><a id="page-1" >Link One</a></li>
          <li class="linktwo"><a id="page-2" >Link Two</a></li>
          <li class="linkthree"><a id="page-3" >Link Three</a></li>
     </ul>
     <ul id="list_two" class="right_column">
          <li class="linkone"><a id="page-4" >Link One</a></li>
          <li class="linktwo"><a id="page-5" >Link Two</a></li>
          <li class="linkthree"><a id="page-6" >Link Three</a></li>
     </ul>
     <ul id="list_three" class="left_column">
          <li class="linkone"><a id="page-7" >Link One</a></li>
          <li class="linktwo"><a id="page-8" >Link Two</a></li>
          <li class="linkthree"><a id="page-9" >Link Three</a></li>
     </ul>
     <ul id="list_four" class="right_column">
          <li class="linkone"><a id="page-10" >Link One</a></li>
          <li class="linktwo"><a id="page-11" >Link Two</a></li>
          <li class="linkthree"><a id="page-12" >Link Three</a></li>
     </ul>
</div>
So, the drop down option would list all the possible rules to OVERRIDE existing rules that match the chosen elements, sorted by amount of nodes matched.
For this example, the first compound rule you will see in the dropdown will be the one that matches ".left_column .linktwo". (Matches 2 elements)
I know it sounds obvious, something you could do yourself. BUT when you have A LOT of code, someone else created, with no obvious class names, or not even intended to be grown up that much… you really need something that finds what the elements you selected have in common.
After your selection, another selection could allow you to DISCARD elements from the choosing chriteria.
Thanks Adobe!

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