Orphan 'Files' vs orphan 'STYLES'?

[Guest]

Developing and maintaining hundreds of web pages for a web site can be a hassle (I know - preaching to the choir.)

DW has a nice feature for identifying and locating unused (orphan) files,

however,

Page designs evolve over time.

Hard to keep track of all pages that call for a style that is no longer defined or have a style definition that is no longer used.

Sure would be nice to be able to

(1) identify and locate unused 'Styles' in stylesheets and/or in documents or to

(2) produce a list of all styles defined in the head of all pages of a web site.

e.g.

last year I created some pages that needed a <p> with a smaller font and had a margin of 10 px on all sides.

I defined that style in the head of the document.

Later I standardized on a style that I use on several pages that is only slightly different.

Created a new style in a style sheet.

Even replaced the style identifier for paragraphs on pages I could find that used the old reference to the style I don't want to use any more.

Problem is - I still have pages that have the old unused style definition in the head of the document.

I know, I can search the site for any source code that contains '.dumstyle_icky' and replace or delete it.

But I've been a proliferous experimentor.

Tons of old pages to wade through.

Am I the only one that has this kind of problem on a site redisign?

Is there an extension, etc., that can help with this kind of houskeeping?

I purchased 'CSS Edit'. Nice CSS editor but no help organizing styles or cleaning up css on existing htm or php documents.

dan h.

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

If you use Firefox (and everyone should IMHO), there's an add-on for it called Dust-Me Selectors that finds unused CSS selectors in pages and keeps a log to cross check against other site pages.

Firefox Add-on link -

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5392

SitePoint link -

http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/

Nancy O.
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[Guest]

Thank you Nancy,

I think I get more help than I deserve, but, I really do appreciate it...

Dan H.