Commenting out in CSS

jeber · Joined: Dec 19, 2002 Posts: 4194 Location: The Village

I'm beginning to get a grasp on CSS, but one little concept still eludes me.

Let's say I have the following in my style sheet:

Quote:

body {
background-color: #e1e4e8;
}

body, td {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: left;
color: #000;
}

body, td, .indent, .defaulttext, .caption, .captiontext, .bodytable, .mediumtext,
.forumheader, .forumheader2, .forumheader3, .forumheader4, .forumheader5, .fcaption, .finfobar {
font: normal 10px verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;
color: #000;
}
.tbox {
border: #A5ACB2 1px solid;
background-color: #fff;
}

.indent {
border: #999 1px dashed;
padding: 5px;
margin: 5px;
background-color: #f7f7f9;
}

Now if I want to comment out the .tbox border (and what is the .tbox? text box?), do I put the /* and */ only around the name of the item (.tbox), around the line "border", or where exactly? (BTW-what does td, as in (body, td,) mean?)

silmaril8n · Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 1743 Location: Phoenix, AZ

You would put /* */ around the entire section that needs to be commented out.

Quote:

/* body,td {
stuff.stuf
}*/

The "body, td" just means that anything within the body tag (the entire page) and a td tag (table cell) should be styled in this way. Some browsers don't apply styles to 'td' unless it's very explicit like that.

If you wanted to only comment out a single style in the group then you would just single it out like:

Quote:

.tbox {
/* border: 1px solid #333; */
color: #fff;
}

The ".tbox" class in the sheet you included could mean Text Box but since it's a class (designated by the period in front) it can be applied to virtually any tag in the page. It depends on the html as to what it actually styles.