[thelist] Identifying Orphaned CSS Styles

[Michael Dinowitz]

This is a brute force approach but you can scan the entire site for any
class="" text and get the content of the attribute. Then you can compare
that list to the style sheets. Dreamweaver and some RegEx would do it nicely
(one of the very few things I'd use dreamweaver for).

I'm planning on doing the same thing myself very soon before I add in nifty
corners.

On 6/15/06, Drew Shiel <ashiel at sportsinteraction.com> wrote:
>
>
>   Hi folks;
>
>   I'm sure this has come up for someone before. We've a fairly large site,
> which uses about six different CSS files. Some of these files are
> suffering
> from a certain degree of bloat, and I know that some of the defined styles
> are no longer in use.
>
>   Is there any way to easily identify which styles are no longer in use
> anywhere on the site? Ideally, this will be some software or spider, but
> even a suggestion as to a methodology to write a script of our own to work
> it out would be good.
>
>   The major problem is that a developer who worked here for a while was
> fond
> of carefully positioning unique elements of a page, and dumping the
> necessary CSS into the site-wide style sheets. Many of those unique
> elements
> have been changed by now, but the styles are still there, and have
> uninformative names like "infobar".
>
>   Cheers,
>   Drew.
>
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