[wp-hackers] Styling of "post date"

[Allan Mertner]

Mike Little wrote:

>>It does, if you have more than one h2 tag inside the content - say,
>>inside a blog post.  Adding a class specifier to allow the css to target
>>this element specifically would make sense: it adds readability to the
>>stylesheet and allows you to target your style to *that* element only.
>>    
>>
>But then an h2 inside a post will be contained within a div of the
>class storycontent
>Thus 
>#content div.storycontent h2 { color: blue;} 
>will style the h2's within a post, again without changing the template.
>  
>
This is obviously true, which is why I added the comment on 
readability.  IMO, this CSS is more readable, as in 
easier-to-remember-what-it-does - and has no side effects:

.postdate {
    color: blue;
}

than this:

#content h2 {
color: red;
}


#content div.storycontent h2 {
    color: black; // or whatever the default is. Remember to change it 
in both places.
}

I can work around it by hacking index.php or by adding what I would 
consider unnecessarily obscure statements to my stylesheet. I'd prefer 
it if I didn't have to do either, but it's of course not my call.

Allan