Writing Efficient CSS

By: John Gallant, Holly Bergevin, on Monday, December 1, 2003
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One of the touted benefits of CSS is that it reduces total page weight, both at first page load, and even more on subsequent loads due to style sheet caching. Often a sizable fraction of the savings is lost because of highly redundant CSS code. Come learn some secrets of efficient CSS coding, enabling you to pare that style sheet right down to the bare bones.