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CSS

Posted by Claudine Bananal
Claudine Bananal
1,756 Points

Order of Declarations (Ex. clear:both;)

The placement of rules in a stylesheet can possibly override previous rules, but how about declarations? Does the place of a declaration affect the style?

In the "footer" selector, Nick placed the "clear:both" declaration just after the second declaration which is "text-align:center," instead of the last declaration. I'm just curious if it's just personal preference or otherwise.

2 Answers

Joe Consterdine
Joe Consterdine
13,965 Points

Hi Claudine,

no it doesn't really matter with the declarations. I would say it's better to keep it organised though.

For e.g.

This:

body {
font-family: serif;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
height: 200px;
padding: 10px;
clear: both;
}

Is better than this:

body {
font-family: serif;
clear: both;
font-size: 16px;
height: 200px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 10px;
}

You can see the second one is a bit messy and harder to read.

Joe

Claudine Bananal
Claudine Bananal
1,756 Points
Claudine Bananal
Claudine Bananal
1,756 Points

Thank you!