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Asked: 2026-05-11T09:03:36+00:00

I have just finished building a heavyweight long sales page, with a lot of

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I have just finished building a heavyweight long sales page, with a lot of elements and varying styles on the page.The CSS has ended up being over specific with its selectors, and there are numerous rounded boxes, background images etc. In short, the CSS is a bit of a mess. (only myself to blame!)

Can anyone suggest a method of going through this stylesheet methodically, in an effort to combine my duplicate properties etc? I doubt there are any tools to do this for me, but I’m wondering how others deal with this situation?

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  1. There are in fact some CSS Refactoring tools, which were covered on SO pretty well.

    I can’t vouch for them, though, since I always refactor by hand. My technique is to separate existing styles into:

    • Layout
    • Typography
    • Colors (Look & Feel)
    • Hacks

    That’s usually a quick copy & paste job. From there, similarities and redundancies are a lot more apparent, so combining and simplifying gets much easier.

    With that done, having a TOC at the top of the page makes your sections easy to find, and generally easier to search.

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