The Extract and Merge Inline Style Feature
What Does Your Style Say About You?
Using external style sheets is ideal when applying the style to many pages. Even so, many of us find ourselves reverting to inline style to quickly prototype the look of the design. It’s a bad habit that ends with visual aids scattered around your Web Site. And rogue visuals become a maintenance nightmare for you and a formatting problem for browsers.
The Solution
Web design 101 teaches us to separate presentation from content and Cascade
Style Sheets (CSS) is the tool to do it. This feature will help you
pull your style together from slob to suave. It goes through your code on each
page’s inline style declarations and consolidates it into a single location.
Repeated declarations are merged, which also helps to compress and clarify your
CSS code.
Once the style sheet is spic and span, any browser can easily read it and format the page according to your rules rather than using their best guess.
Depending on the settings you choose in the options dialog, these styles could be either placed inside the current Web page or in an external style sheet. It’s your call.
The before and after…
Learn more about CSS and extracting and merging inline styles: