I’m looking for tips and tricks (from CSS geeks) for using Themes, Skins, and CSS in ASP.NET 2.0.

Specifically I’d like to know if anyone has an elegant equivalent for:

    Using conditional comments with themes and skins:

        Example:
            <!--[if IE]>
                <link href="IEQuirkFixFile.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
            <![endif]-->

    Controlling the load order of CSS files.

    Omitting CSS files from the automatic loading of CSS files.

    This post has been cross posted at: http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51186

Thanks in Advance,

- Adam Kahtava [http://adam.kahtava.com]

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- Adam Kahtava [http://adam.kahtava.com]

I’ve encountered a number of design flaws with the way ASP.NET 2.0 Themes and Skins work with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Themes and Skins basically compromise CSS in complex applications, or any web application that uses syntax similar to my last post.

The items listed below are inaccessible when using Themes and Skins - with the exception to a couple "work arounds" that still don't completely expose all of CSS's functionality.

1. CSS media types
2. The CSS @Import rule
3. The CSS @Media rule
4. Preferred and alternate style sheets
5. Media-dependent cascades
6. Inheritance and cascading
7. The use of Microsoft's Conditional Comments

Read more in my article titled: The Problems with Themes, Skins, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - Where it all Falls Apart: http://adam.kahtava.com/journal/Comm...cd804b683.aspx


- Adam Kahtava [http://adam.kahtava.com]