TopStyle : Java Glossary

A CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) style sheet editor and validator. It finds syntax errors in your CSS style sheets. They take PayPal or credit cards. TopStyle 5.0.0.104 is the latest version available. Last revised/verified: 2014-07-10 It now also works under Vista, W2008, W7-32 and W7-64 and fixes many serious bugs. It is a upgrade from 3+ versions.

Advantages

• It will tidy your CSS style sheet.
• It finds invalid class names in your HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).
• 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 (Computer Science and Engineering) HTML Validator about CSS style sheets.
• It catches invalid font names and invalid URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) 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\TopStyle5\user\ or APPDATA\Roaming\Bradsoft.com\TopStyle\5.0\Sites\.
• To edit the list of files included in the site, click recreate site.
• Check out the orphan classes report. Use it to catch typos that are still syntactically correct.
• Check out the undefined classes report. Use it to catch typos in your class name markup, which are not considered syntactic errors.
• My configured sweeper is stored in C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Bradsoft.com\TopStyle\5.0\sweepers\Roedy.tss. It is a simple text file.

Custom Palettes

New in TopStyle 5, check out the *.tpl files in C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Bradsoft.com\TopStyle\5.0\palettes\. They are a type of *.ini file that defines a custom palette. Unfortunately, you cannot specify names of colours. However, the pre-defined colours do have names.