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Both of those examples are abhorrent to me. Each property should be indented on its own line (unless it's minified of course).
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@DeadInside Truth. I usually indent, but didn't in this case just to save space within the rant
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Root825997yTotally agree. Ugly css is ugly.
I have a very specific order I put everything in, with newlines between sections. Values are all vertically aligned per section. For nested rules, each rule's styles go at the top with a newline always before the next rule
This makes styling much easier to read and debug at a glance.
This might just be me and my OCD talking, but am I the only one who gets super annoyed with sloppy CSS formatting?
So like, if somebody writes a sloppily formatted rule like this without spacing out each property and value:
#signUpButton {color:#FFF;background:#000;float:right;clear:both;padding:5px;position:absolute;top:5px;right:20px;height:100px;width:45px;}
As opposed to something like this, which just looks much cleaner:
#signUpButton { color: #FFF; background; #000; float: right; clear: both; padding: 5px; }
The formatting makes no difference in how the CSS is evaluated and rendered, but I find the spaceless style so ugly and difficult to read/edit, whereas the spaced out style is much more appealing to the eyes and easier to read
I find myself reformatting other people's CSS that works perfectly fine just so it will be easier to read/edit for anybody else that looks at it in the future
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sloppy css styling web