Heather Soloman writes about a several important and helpful points in this article on using SharePonint and CSS.
"SharePoint utilizes CSS quite heavily, and it is both a curse and a blessing. Since nearly all of the SharePoint 2003 UI is hard coded in the site definitions, CSS provides one of the best ways to update the UI. But the SharePoint CSS is also pretty unruly and can be quite daunting at first glance. Let's go ahead and get the numbers out on the table.
For a SharePoint 2003 Portal and WSS install, there are 7 separate style sheets
Internet Explorer 7 contains a number of improvements to cascading style sheet (CSS) parsing and rendering over IE6. These improvements are aimed at improving the consistency of how Internet Explorer interprets cascading style sheets as recommended by the W3C in order that developers have a reliable set of functionality on which to rely.In some cases a few of these changes may have the effect of making existing content render in ways that are not compatible with IE6. This is often seen with elements moving to a different area of the page or overlapping
SharePoint utilizes CSS quite heavily, and it is both a curse and a blessing. Since nearly all of the SharePoint 2003 UI is hard coded in the site definitions, CSS provides one of the best ways to update the UI. But the SharePoint CSS is also pretty unruly and can be quite daunting at first glance. Let's go ahead and get the numbers out on the table.
For a SharePoint 2003 Portal and WSS install, there are 7 separate style sheets (excluding themes), totaling to 7,403 lines of code and 1,227 style statements. Ouch! Luckily some of that we can slash
A cool find by Aaron Gustafson from Webstandards.org, here his post: In a fairly interesting move, Amazon is now allowing aStores to be customized using CSS.
This morning, Amazon announced that their aStore product (part of the selling tools available to folks enrolled in the Amazon Associates program) would allow full customization of the look and feel via CSS. Currently, the interface only allows for approximately 8000 characters of custom CSS, but that level of control is allowed on several of the page types, including product descriptions and