Best practice: avoiding inline styling/formatting (RH 2019, new UI)

[martinl83372021]

Hi, Everyone.

In RH 2019, new UI, I'm trying to avoid inline formatting/styling as a best practice. But if I use the buttons in the toolbar to create, say, an unordered bullet list or a table, is that in-line styling? I ask because when I look at the code view, I don't see <span> tags around them. 

Thank you!

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

Selecting a style is not inline styling. You can block inline styling in Preferences I think, if not in Project Settings. 

[martinl83372021]

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Peter.

And great suggestion to block inline styling. I'll check that out.

Thank you!

[Peter Grainge]

You may need to create some classes such as .red to apply red to a paragraph.

[martinl83372021]

I see. Makes sense if I block inline styling, I'll need some alternate way of performing common actions like changing text to red.

Thank you!

[Amebr]

Regarding naming, I would suggest thinking of the purpose for the styling and giving a name that reflects that. Otherwise in future you might change your red text to blue, but still be applying a style called "red". (Been there, done that. 😛  )

e.g FieldName or LabelText, rather than Bold, TextSample, rather than Italic.

(Sometimes it is *really* hard to find a good name. 🙂  )

[martinl83372021]

Nice tip, Amber. I totally get the need. 

Thank much!!