3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 22, 2014 5:58 PM by Preran RSS

    Boilerplate.css questions

    matthew stuart Community Member

      Why are we not to tamper with the Boilerplate.css?

       

      I understand the reasoning as far as breaking page structure goes, but the file also has css styles for the likes of 'a href' colours and text decoration. Is this really necessary because it doesn't do anything for structure, but it is for some reason overriding my declared styles for a href and this is forcing me to have to write more code to compound styles to specific areas just to get text-based links to display how I want them to. I have boilerplate.css imported before any other imported style sheet, so things like a href should be overridden shouldn't they.

       

      The declared styles for a href are almost the same as the default colours of web links anyway, so I don't understand why they are in the boilerplate.css... can anybody tell me what's the harm of changing these kind of structureless tags?

       

      Thanks