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CSS CSS Foundations Getting Started with CSS Adding CSS to a Page

Posted by Jeremy Lindstrom
Jeremy Lindstrom
6,646 Points

why would you use @import css over just adding another statement?

In the CSS video, why would you use @import css over just adding another css link statement?

2 Answers

Michael Jurgensen
Michael Jurgensen
8,341 Points

Most of the time you will not use @import.

Linked Stylesheet are loaded parallel, run faster. However @import stylesheets load one by one which means slower load times.

@import are mainly used when working with media queries.

More examples when you should use @import: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@import

James Carter
James Carter
14,580 Points
James Carter
James Carter
14,580 Points

Hey Jeremy,

Like Michael said, most of the time you won't use it & it can lead to slower loading time. However, there might be times where your css code might start getting out of hand and hard to scan through to find certain pieces of code. So, @import would be used if you were to section off certain parts of your code into separate style sheets, especially if you are working on a project with others and its not just you that will have to look at the css.