Enjoying CSSEdit 2.5

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I've recently upgraded to a CSS editor called, surprisingly enough, CSSEdit and have been really impressed.

One of things I've been quick to start using is the application's group feature. This allows me to break my CSS documents down into manageable chunks. By chunking the document up like this and then hiding what I'm not interested in, I'm vastly more able to concentrate on the task in hand - the slick implementation of design.

I like this feature so much that I made a little movie to illustrate what I'm talking about:

Grouping in CSSEdit 2.5 from Yandle on Vimeo

Group Syntax

Previous versions of CSSEdit used a made-up group tag, hidden in CSS comments, like this:

and while the new syntax still hides inside comments it differs I that it's not tag shaped:

I doubt that this is a formal CSS standard but I'm interested to see of other CSS editors are going to follow suite. I'm sure PC users would like to have a tool with this feature in their front end development workflow.

By the way, if anybody knows of a way of getting blogger to not f*ckup code, let me know and I'll replace that graphical text.

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