[Web4lib] Tool to show where/whether CSS classes and IDs are beingused?

Pons, Lisa (ponslm) PONSLM at UCMAIL.UC.EDU
Wed Sep 12 12:11:58 EDT 2007


Others will chime in, but the web developer toolbar for firefox can do
this sort of (outline current element-as you mouseover), as well as lots
of other cool things.  

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Norwood, Randy
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:26 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Tool to show where/whether CSS classes and 
> IDs are beingused?
> 
> Is anyone aware of a tool (preferably open source) that can 
> analyze a web site and its stylesheets, and identify where 
> (on what pages) a given CSS selector is being used?
> 
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> 
> This would be useful, for example, if one wished to modify 
> the style associated with a given selector--you could view 
> the results of the change on all of the pages where that 
> style is applied and be reasonably certain that nothing has broken.
> 
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> 
> I have looked at a CSS editing and management program called 
> TopStyle which has this capability. However, it seems a bit 
> buggy, and it is abit expensive ($80). 
> 
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> 
> thanks,
> 
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