TopStyle : Java Glossary

A CSS style sheet editor and validator. It finds syntax errors in your CSS style sheets. $80.00 USD TopStyle 4.0.0.74 is the latest version available. Last revised/verified: 2010-03-15 It now also works under Vista/W7-32 and fixes many serious bugs. It is a $30.00 USD upgrade from 3+ versions.

Advantages

• It will tidy your CSS style sheet.
• It finds invalid class names in your HTML.
• It finds orphaned (i.e. unused) styles.
• It shows you which files used which styles.
• It has a colour chooser to help compose style sheets.
• The error messages it generates are much more useful than from other style checkers. It is not as picky as CSE HTML Validator about CSS style sheets.
• It catches invalid font names and invalid URLs for background images. Xenu cannot check that.
• It lets you know which styles are supported in which browser.
• It also has various tidying functions.
• You can edit your style sheet and simultaneously view the effects on one of your documents.
• You can also edit HTML and see how it will render in the bottom window. It does not automatically scroll the bottom window to follow your changes though.

Gotchas

• If you get your braces unbalanced, it simply tells you they don’t balance but gives you no hint where to look for the problem. When this happen I revalidate in HTMLValidator which points out the problem spot.

Tips

• Topstyle stores its files in either: F:\Program Files\TopStyle4\user\ or C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Bradsoft.com\TopStyle\4.0\Sites\.
• To edit the list of files included in the site, click recreate site.