Why Linux would be convenient right about now...

[symbioidlj]

I have a batch of html files that i need to modify the text of...(one of my css style elements has to be renamed). If my hunch is correct, I could easily(well with a little bit of learning curve), tell linux to do a universal search in the list of files and find and replace in each one the old text with the new. Maybe windows can do that, but i bet it's not as easy as linux. And hell, i bet OS X could do it what with freebsd in the core and all....

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[jimpish.livejournal.com]

if you go snag a copy of dreamweaver the site manager has a complete site find and replace feature... i've used it quite a bit... works great..

[vega-33.livejournal.com]

You're right, linux is a lot easier to use than windows. And I did 2 command line search and replaces in the last 2 weeks :).

All you need is 5 years of experience and a passion for operating systems which don't have backdoors and reporting back to their owners.

Open source baby. Yeah!

[(Anonymous)]

Homesite has global search and replace and it's really easy to use. You have that program right?

Also, from the sound of your post you're putting all your CSS into every page. Why don't you make one CSS file and reference it? Or are you talking you made a CSS file but changed the name of a class and need to change the class names in the HTML? I guess CSS has the same problem XML does. You really need to have it down pat before you start building all the other stuff.

-Brent

[vega-33.livejournal.com]

CSS doesn't necessarily work best in referenced files. When you have consistent styles across a series of pages its useful. But I do know there is a use for minor inline style sheets, especially for controlling font names and sizes, and putting nice looking borders on tables. Like my work for VoiceSmart. Producing printable tables means that the standard border appearance is bound to look like c r a p, so dashed or solid black borders work wonders. Theres also page breaking before or after elements, something which is very useful. Unfortunately only in IE 5.5 or 6 and to some extent Mozilla can you effect page margins using the margin-xxxx attributes, but since we're heading away from 5.0 now that won't be an annoyance for too long.

Even though I've found myself consistently annoyed by the discrepancies between the different browsers, CSS is turning into a very useful tool. As we start heading towards faster computers where Mozilla's chunkiness doesn't bother people as much, I can forsee a much higher use of style sheets. Especially in rendering tables, form buttons and fonts.