getting attached rule to stay in targeted rule menu

jeanl67660933  wrote Can I apply a stylesheet to many pages at once? So I can see it in the "targeted rule" dropdown menu on the properties tab, without having to add it individually to every page when it's open. Thanks for the advice

Depends what you mean by apply a stylesheet?

You can 'link' a stylesheet to each page but just linking a stylesheet isnt going to help you as you need to apply a style within that stylesheet to something on your page.

You're looking to change the structure of your html IF you want to update specific words within a number of pages with a different color and unfortunately unless they are within include files there is really no automated process other than using find and replace,

So you might have:

'<p>The fox jumped over the lazy dog</p>' on a number of pages where you want to color the word 'jumped' in red or green or orange.

You would find the phrase 'The fox jumped over the lazy dog'

and replace it with:

The fox <span style="color: red;">jumped</span> over the lazy dog

Inline css styling (example above) is not advisable but since you have no global stylesheet attached to each page its the only way you can do what you need to do. Even if you did have a global stylesheet you still need to target the words you need to color change which you cant do if they are part of a sentence.

If you had a global stylesheet attached to each page and the words you wanted to change were within a unique html tag like <h2></h2> or <h3></h3> tag you would be able to change the color very easily.

If you do attempt to use 'find and replace' then make sure you back up your site folder as I personally would not want to use 'find and replace' on 100+ pages

jeanl67660933  wrote My use of DW is very basic so I'm not sure what the difference is between linking a css stylesheet and inserting a rule...I'm just trying to make one or two words on each page a certain code of red and using css instead of just changing the type color, so I can change the color globally later if I need to.

Sounds to me the only way youre going to be able to do that is using Search and Replace given the number of pages you mention.

You're probably trying to do something like 'This is some <span class="red-text">Red Text</span> in a paragraph'

If the words or phrase you're trying to make a specific color are unique in the page its possible through Search and Replace otherwise i have not a clue how you would do that.

Its not like you want to change a specific heading in a specific container to a different color which pulls the color from a global css stylesheet.