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How early is new CSS included?

  • MKJJ
    September 4, 2024 at 8:18 am

    Hi there,
    this is a very general question, but it has some practical implications. I try to adopt new CSS rules early, if they can’t hurt. Here are two examples:

    
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h6 {
text-wrap: balance;
}

p,
li,
figcaption {
text-wrap: pretty;
max-width: 65ch;
}

    These rules will always improve, but never really hurt anything. Now, it is quite time-consuming to implement these rules individually. I could create an external stylesheet that is loaded on all customer sites, but this approach feels a bit hacky.

    How do you handle this? Do you adopt rules like this early in theme updates? Or do you prefer a more conservative approach? I would prefer having this in the GP parent theme. But I do understand if you decide against it.

    Thanks, Mike

  • Alvind
    September 4, 2024 at 6:48 pm

    Hi there,

    If you want to centralize your custom CSS rules, like the ones in your example and use them across multiple sites, you can utilize a child theme. Simply place all your custom CSS rules in the child theme’s style.css file.​

  • MKJJ
    September 4, 2024 at 10:58 pm

    Hi Alvind,

    I use child themes on all sites. But this will not do the trick. Modifications of the CSS would require time-consuming indivual updates of the stylesheets. An external stylesheet that is loaded after the child theme CSS would be a solution. However, it just doesn’t feel right to load an external file for a little bit CSS. This is the reason why I asked how early you adopt cutting edge CSS in the parent theme. I don’t talk about CSS with poor browser support that could break a site. It’s just about the nice-to-have stuff that could improve user experience without harming anything.

  • Alvind
    September 5, 2024 at 6:35 am

    Thank you for the insights. We’ll note this for potential improvements. 🙂

  • MKJJ
    September 6, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Thank you very much. Don’t get me wrong: This was not meant to be a criticism. I’m all for a conservative approach. There are some really useful CSS rules that don’t have great browser support. However, they are simply ignored if the browser can’t process them.

  • Alvind
    September 6, 2024 at 12:56 am

    No worries, we completely understand. We’re open to any feedback for improvements as well.

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