Turning off "Auto Inline CSS" in VS 2008

[smmelton]

Recently our company upgraded from VS 05 to 2008. So far I like it. But any time I create a new page and adjust things like table widths it auto assigns inline CSS styles instead of just assigning a width to each cell. Is there a way to turn that off? It's incredibly annoying. I've played with Tools>Options>HTML Designer but it doesn't help.

 

[JohnH]

Inline CSS (Styles property) is applied if you set the width in Styles dialog, but not if you set Width property from what I see.
I'm more in favour of site wide linked stylesheets or head styles if one absolutely need local page overrides, so the addition of a CSS editor I think is really nice.

 

[smmelton]

That's the thing, all of our pages use master pages that are linked to our CSS file, but any time I create new pages in 08 it ignores that existing link, even if I reference the CSS sheet at the top of every page it still will create styles on certain things. For instance, if I expand a table column, it'll create a style at the top of that page and reference the style with <td style="style1">. I have no idea why it won't just set the width property on every <td> like 05 did for me rather than putting in a style every time.

Sorry for not being clearer before.

 

[JohnH]

You can use the new CSS editor/manager to add the new style directive to the existing or new stylesheet.
Exactly what you mean by "if I expand a table column, it'll create a style" I don't understand.

 

[smmelton]

If I grab a table column in design view and stretch it wider, I'd rather have it say <td width="500px"> than it saying <td style="style1"> and have a style that is set to 500px at the top. That's what it did in 05.

 

[JohnH]

Aha, see it now. You can configure this in Options, Html Designer, CSS. Choose CSS (classes) or CSS (inline styles) for the different categories.

 

[smmelton]

I've played with Tools>Options>HTML Designer but it doesn't help.

I suppose I'll just stick to '05 or use Visual Web Developer Express Edition '08 as many devs in our office have had the same problem.