What's better one bigger style sheet or several smaller ones?

[Fatbat]

I have a site that uses quite an extensive color coding system with lots of custom graphics for tabs and whatnot. What is better, one big style sheet that is used on all pages site wide or several smaller ones, one for each subsection?

[Moby_Dim]

I think there is the only case to prefer multiple files : if your visitors fork on your index or other page (so, subsection A users do not visit subsection B, and vise versa). But may be this is not the case.

One file is the best choice I suppose. And do not forget that the file will be cached as a rule after the first opening.

[eljaykay]

Hi -
Moby-Dim's got it on this - one page to bind them...
just imagine a couple of months down the road when you've got to make changes and ask yourself which one you'd rather have to deal with!

2 cents,
El

[Monique]

Hi,

One style sheet of course.
But you can use something like title with /*title*/ to separate subsection in the style sheet.

Monique (sorry for bad english)

[Fatbat]

Thank you for your input!

[victor]

I generally have several. Each page has two:

the one that is common to the whole site (ie same for all pages)

the one that contains the styles or adjustments to styles that are common to the section of the site.

When I need to create a new site section, I cna just clone a existing section's CSS file and start tweaking that.

It's simple and structured approach that works for me.

[Robin_reala]

I usually have 4!

Layout
Fonts & colours
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