Any way to simplify WeBuilder CSS after cleanup?

[mrenner]

When I use WebBuilder to clean up code from a WYSIWYG editor using HTML Tidy it moves most of the inline styles up into the head of the document, which is a not unexpected behavior.

But the CSS styles are still a bit hard to read because of all the redundancies in the statments. The last document I cleaned up had 61 div.cXX lines in it, all of them only slightly different.

Lots of the code in those lines is redundant. For instance 95% of the lines contained either:
position: absolute; text-align: left; top:
position: absolute; text-align: center; top:

Can WeBuilder be configured to automatically add a couple lines of code to substitute for statements like these? That would make the CSS code easier to read and less top-heavy, whether I leave it in the document or move it to an external style sheet.

[David T]

If you want clean efficient xhtml/css code you have to craft your pages by hand and stay away for WYSWIG web page builders. If you want to build a web page and then leave it as it is then Front Page and Dreamweaer are great tools. If you want to keep changing, editing and refining your web page then you have to understand the code that creates the page so you can make the page do what you want it to do.

Tidy is a third party add in to HTMLPad/WeBuilder. I use Tidy to help clean and format my code but I turn off the feature that turns the HTML tags into CSS for exactly the same reason you describe.

I have used Front Page and Dreamweaver. The best thing is to live with what they give you. Tools that create and modify programming code for you are inherently inefficient because they use simple rules to solve an infinite solution set.

If you want powerful clean efficient code there is no getting around leaning HTML, XHML, CSS.