I know. I’m probably over my quota of questions for the week already!
I’m creating style sheets. I’ve created a BodyText one and based in on the “p” tag. Now I’m going to make a style sheet for my page footers (and eventually, other sections on the site). Do I also base these on the “p” tag, or is that a no-no because I’ve already done that and it wil confuse the browser.
Also, how does htis affect the “p” that’s already in my style sheet list.
Do you really mean you are creating more than 1 style sheet.
Lots of different Styles can be incorporated into the same ‘Stylesheet’
Each page can only have 1 stylesheet applied at any one time so you cannot use different stylesheets on different areas of the page (unless they are in frames)
All styles are generally based on a base and modified to suit but named accordingly so you cannot have 2 styles called the same thing with different properties.
But what you can have is P.footer, P.header, H1.footer, H1.header etc
That is different styles based on the P tag or H1 tag with different styling properties.
Always good to remember is that you can set a default “body” tag in your stylesheet to handle the default font, size, styles, etc for the entire page. You can also set a line-height or “leading” page wide as well using the “body” tag. However, if you’re doing an in-flow (or box-model) design I’d leave the leading amount in the p (paragraph) tag instead of the “body” or else you’ll get a bunch of in-flow items not lining up properly in Freeway but when outputted appear just fine.