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Hi there,

I'm experimenting with CSS and, although what I have written so far is 'effective', I suspect it ain't 'efficient'

In other words, I know so little that I have no idea how much I don't know...

The words CLASS and CASCADING makes me think/hope that CSS must support OO-type inheritance... but, for want of knowing, I ain't using any... or at least what I am using is far from 'elegant'

Added to this, I'm still enough of a newbie that I don't know/can't think of the right 'key words' for a (Google) search string

So, rather than read the first 10 zillion pages from each and every search, I thought I'd ask a human

Scenario:
I want to have four headers that are all share 14 attributes - the only difference being font-size

e.g.

.head12
{
color: #000066;
font-family: Verdana, Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif ! important;
font-size: 12pt ! important;
font-style: normal ! important;
font-weight: bold ! important;
line-height: 200% ! important;
margin-top: 0em;
margin-bottom: 0em;
text-align: left ! important;
text-decoration: none ! important;
text-transform: none ! important;
}


What I want to do is, rather than making each similar tag 11 lines long, I'd like one 'parent' class with 10 lines that each 'child' inherits... sort of like so:

.head20
{
inherits : headParent;
font-size: 20pt ! important;
}


.head16
{
inherits : headParent;
font-size: 16pt ! important;
}

etc, etc for .head14 and .head10 where .headParent has all the other 'attributes'









So... two questions (for now )

1. Am I even remotely close to what can/does work with CSS?
2. Do you have any idea where to find a suitable tutorial?

Cheers
six7s

Not exactly a tutorial, but check out http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ ...

Duly bookmarked!

Thanks Peet

Thanks again...

following links from the CSS/edge site, I found http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#value-def-inherit and I think/hope that's what I'm looking for

Now all I need is some more of that elusive stuff called time...

I think there should be some reference at www.w3schools.org
I actually wasted a lot of time to read about CSS to no benefit, until I realised that I just had to grasp one simple principle - that is the syntax, perhaps you only need an editor which have support for css - like crimson edit (only for windows, else emacs probably have support for css in some packages.)


Greetings saint-tobox