Tools -> Reports => Found in empty

[Binchen]

Hi,

please have a look with the ebook i attached. When i execute Tools/reports the p.author selector is not found in the report. Its nested inside a div.titlepage. And thats symptomatic, non of the selectors inside other selectors are shown in the report "used classes".

A bug?

Binchen

[Binchen]

Sorry MacOS, latest Version, Sigil latest version

[KevinH]

The Classes in HTML report is different. It looks ONLY for class entries (non-combinator) used in that xhtml file that exists in your css file with its own entry.

Since p.author itself does not exist as a separate entry in your Style0001.css it is not shown as existing in your css file since it technically does not exist on its own. In other words there is no selector p.author defined in your css file.

The only selector that encompasses p.author is in fact a descendent selector (a combinator) which is not a class selector (although it uses classes).

The CSS Selectors Report does in fact show that descendent selector is used and where.
And Delete Unused Selectors also properly detects its use.

[Binchen]

Then i don't understand the "Used classes" Report.

When i add

<p class="logi">Logo</p>

to my ebook, i thought i can find misspelled classes. Now i see in the "Classes used" p.author and p.logi but both with an empty "Found in" column. I expected that p.author is flagged as used in Style0001 even if its inside a div. Now i can not distinguish between p.author and p.logi. One is correct, the other its obvious that it should be p.logo.

When i now look at CSS selectors, p.logi is not listed (as ecpected).

How can i find out that p.logi is not being declared anywhere in the CSS file? Classes used is showing this but with hundreds classes being defined, epubcheck ist not showing this and flightcrew neither.

Currently i cant see a usecase for "Classes used". And p.author is used and in Style0001.

Binchen

[JSWolf]

I see no reason to use CSS such as p.author instead of .author. This is yet another reason not to use p.author instead of .author.

[Binchen]

I see a reason to do so and its nothing weired, is valid and is understood by 99% of the readers.

A signature in a letter might be different to a signature.

Can we please refrain from such discussions of principle? I'm not going to change my standard CSS stylesheets because your way of coding it is different.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I see no reason to use CSS such as p.author instead of .author. This is yet another reason not to use p.author instead of .author.

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[KevinH]

Combinator selectors are not class selectors. The use case is that it tells you if that class selector is used but not listed as found in a stylesheet, then you know it is only part of a descendant class or other combinator or a misspelled classes or otherwise non-defined class.

In other words if your p.author class was in a div of a different type or nested in some other way, it would not be used at all since the p.author class is not in and of itself defined.

If you use a class selector and define it, it will be found.

So yes, looking at that report will show you which class selectors are defined and where. The CSS Selectors report where tell you if a defined selector (of any type) is used.

Using these reports can help you track down issues with classes.

You can export these reports to csv and merge them as needed.

[Binchen]

Thanks for the information so far. I personnally can still not see any value in this report but maybe others do.

But back to my original problem. I thought that this could be a way to find mistyped class attributes. When i add

<p class="logi">Logo</p>

its syntactically correct. Its not mandatory to have something corresponding in the CSS, so neither Flightcrew nor epubcheck are complaining.

But semantically its obvious that there should be something present, either in styles in the head section or in any linked stylesheet file.

Is there something in Sigil which can help me to find class attributes that have no equivalent in any stylesheet?

Binchen

[KevinH]

Try the wrCisco's cssUndefinedClasses plugin for Sigil.

Or as I explained earlier, merge the html classes report with the css selectors used report. You can even do that manually by just checking what few classes are not found in the html classes report (sort on that column) with the css selectors report of found combinator selectors.

But even that will not tell you if a class was added to help identify an element for some other reason such as javascript code, etc.

Alternatively you can use Search to find any not found class selectors used in the xhtml file and use Preview's Inspector to see the fully inherited CSS of that element.

[BeckyEbook]

Is there something in Sigil which can help me to find class attributes that have no equivalent in any stylesheet?

Plugin cssUndefinedClasses.

Important Note:
Do not use for delete, only to search for undefined classes.