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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes Porting Over Static Template CSS

Posted by rachaelallison
rachaelallison
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why is there a CSS within the CSS?

In this video there's a CSS file linked within the CSS file...what's going on here? What is this file-within-a-file for?

thanks treehouse community! :)

1 Answer

gareth o'connor
gareth o'connor
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gareth o'connor
gareth o'connor
1,755 Points

They can be used for many reasons, most likely legacy such as the ability to apply styles to certain browsers only (the ones which supported @import)

It's more likely these days that it's used in order to organise css into logical blocks/files. Stylesheets can get very big and messy. Just be aware that loading via import isn't as efficient as loading separaetly via <link href...>