I routinely have to work on sites that use up to four or more CSS style sheets in their cascade. This is because, some are generic, some of the styles are dynamically controlled in the back-end Content Management System in several different ways, and then there is a user defined blank style sheet which can be edited within the CMS and has priority in the cascade, so it can be used to modify any of the generic or dynamically generated CSS. It’s a really cool system in the level of control it gives the user within the CMS, but it can be a challenge to pick a new CSS specifier and be sure it isn’t used anywhere within the cascade.

Does anyone know of a quick method to search the entire cascade for a given CSS specifier? If not, here’s a great programming idea for anyone wishing to write a neat Web developer tool. :-)

Topics: tools, CSS, web development, cascade, specifier