How to merge inline css into an existing .css file

[larry29936]

I have some inline css that I'd like to add to an existing styles.css file but have no idea what the format needs to be. Here's what the inline css looks like:

<style>
      .container {
        display: flex;
        max-width: 1350px;
        margin-right: auto; 
        margin-left: auto; 
        padding-top: .3rem;
        padding-bottom: 1.5rem;
      }

      .divL {
        box-sizing: border-box;
        padding: 5px; 
        border-right: solid 1px #000000;
        border-left: solid 1px #000000;
        background: #eaeaea;
        width: 50% ;
        }

    .divR {
        box-sizing: border-box;
        padding: 5px; 
        border-right: solid 1px #000000;
        border-left: solid 1px #000000;
        background: #eaeaea;
        width: 50% ;
       }

     .divR h1 {
        font-size:24px;
        font-weight:bold;
        margin-bottom:8px;
        border-bottom:solid 1px #000000;
        padding-bottom:10px;
        text-align: center;
    }
     .divR h2 {
        font-size:18px;
        font-weight:bold;
        margin-bottom:4px;
        padding-bottom:5px;
        text-align: center;
    }
     .divR h4 {
        font-size:16px;
        font-weight:normal;
        margin-bottom:4px;
        padding-bottom:5px;
        text-align:left;
    }
     .divL h1 {
        font-size:24px;
        font-weight:bold;
        margin-bottom:8px;
        border-bottom:solid 1px #000000;
        padding-bottom:10px;
        text-align: center;
    }
     .divL h2 {
        font-size:18px;
        font-weight:bold;
        margin-bottom:4px;
        padding-bottom:5px;
        text-align: center;
    }
     .divL h4 {
        font-size:16px;
        font-weight:normal;
        margin-bottom:4px;
        padding-bottom:5px;
        text-align: left;
    }
     .p {
        font-size:16px;
        color:#000000;
        font-weight:normal;
        margin-bottom:8px;
        padding-bottom:10px;
    }
     .h1 {
        font-size:24px;
        font-weight:bold;
        margin-bottom:4px;
        border-bottom:solid 3px #000000;
        padding-bottom:5px;
        text-align: center;
    } 
</style>

How do I merge it into the pre-existing styles.css?

[larry29936]

Another question. How do I identify the section of the styles.css file so that the html file knows how to format a section of the page? In other words, the tag in the html, like ?

[Dani]

If you want to copy/paste that and stick it into an external .CSS file, then just remove the opening <style> and the closing <style> tags and put the actual CSS somewhere in the file.

Something to note is that, with CSS, order matters. So, for example, if at the top of the page you say the background color should be blue, and then later on you say it should be red, it will overwrite the blue with red. So if any of the styles are already in the .CSS file, you might want to take care where you copy/paste the above within the file.

I'm not quite sure what you mean about how to identify the section? For example, line 2 of your markup above begins how a container should look. Then, in HTML code, if you have <div class="container">Foo</div> then that div wil be formatted based on how the CSS file says.

[larry29936]

@Dani my html is formated like so:<div id="download" class="stylized">. I assume that the class="stylized" refers to a section of the css file. Am I wrong? If not, how do I identify the new section of the .css file?

[Dani]

If your HTML looks like that, then the part of the CSS file could be:

.stylized
{
    ...
}

I say could be because CSS is inherited, meaning it could also be:

#download { ... }

or

#download.stylized { ... }

or

div { ... }

or, it could reference multiple levels of HTML. For example, take the code:

<div class="foo">
    <div class="bar">
        Baz Bat
    </div>
</div>

If you want to use a selector to stylize the text Baz Bat, it could be done as so:

.foo { ... }
.bar { ... }
.foo .bar { ... }
div { ... }    
etc.

The more narrower you get, the higher precedence the style takes. For example, you can set one color for your entire site, another color for a section, and then a third color just for a sub-section of that section.