CDATA sessions

Discussion in 'CSS' started by AdamSee, Oct 12, 2006.

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    I've seen people using CDATA sessions in their external stylesheets
    

/*<![CDATA[

.wrapper	{width:768px; text-align:left; margin:0 auto}
.background		{background:#999}

/*]]>*/
    Code (External Stylesheet example):
    My question is why?

    I understand the use for inline styling to keep the markup valid and non-parsing in XHTML. However having it in external documents being sent as text/css will not be treated as xhtml anyway, so the use of CDATA seems redundant?
     
    AdamSee, Oct 12, 2006 IP
  2. SoKickIt

    SoKickIt Active Member

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    Isn't that just a comment in CSS? Browsers will ignore that.
     
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  3. penagate

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    You missed the first closing comment token in your sample code so that whole thing will be ignored.

    But, you're correct: it's completely unnecessary in an external file.
     
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