This may very well be the understatement of the century.
SharePoint is not only hard to style, but it is so far from semantically correct markup and accessible code that it blows my mind. It has become less difficult to blow my mind these days.
I opened up the core.css file, which is the stylesheet that drives all of the SharePoint sites out of the box, and it is a gigantic 4,500 lines of CSS. That is incredible. To make matters worse, there isn’t a lick of inheritance. Among several other things, the same exact font family is declared a lot. Also, the core.css is declared last on the page, so forget about overriding the css that is already there.
Of course, people have found workarounds for much of these shenanigans. An article by Cameron Moll has great insight and also links to other great resources.
No wonder so many companies are using the out of the box styles. I am going to try and tackle this beast. Wish me luck and I will be sure to post my findings here.
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