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December 10th, 2002, 07:51 AM
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@import or <link>? - CSS
I've been looking over CSS tutorials, articles, and other miscellaneous bumf, and I just happened to be wondering...
What is the preferred or correct way to import style sheets: @import or <link>? I know that the @import rule under windows can have a strange side-effect of 'flashing' the unstyled content of the page before reflowing. So why use this, and not <link>? Is this something to do with standards (  not again, that terrible yet wonderous word), or just down to the coding preference of the developer?Comments and thoughts please ppl 
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December 10th, 2002, 08:28 AM
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I'm new to using @import too, but it's my understanding that @import is similar to an `include`. So let's say you default.css which only contains site wide fonts and default colors, then you have more specific stylesheets that would @import this default stylesheet, instead of repeating the style declaration or using multiple <link> statements.
<link> is used within HTML, @import is used within the stylesheet itself. I'm sure someone will correct me if I understood all of this incorrectly.
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December 10th, 2002, 09:44 AM
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i usually use @import
just remember that netscape 4.x don't support @import. but you can use that to an advantage, use a simple style in the link for netscape, and an more advanced style in the @import http://www.dcjt.demon.co.uk/dc/web/2002/hidecss.html just remeber that ie has its problem too http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp
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December 10th, 2002, 11:44 AM
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Thats what i mean, the "flash"ing of content before the style is applied. Surely it would be better to just use <link> to avoid this bug?
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