Efficient CSS Selectors

[casper434]

How much practical impact do inefficient CSS selectors have on page speed?

[Matthew_Edgar]

Hi Brett,

Poorly written CSS selectors do not have much, if any, impact on site speed. I've never seen an issue where bad CSS changed the load of a page I was working on. That said, writing clean CSS can be helpful in a lot of other areas, including code maintainability.

There is a good article on this that you might find interesting: http://css-tricks.com/efficiently-rendering-css/

I hope that helps.

Matthew