Discourage In-Line Styling

[JefferyD]

When working with look and feel, it is all too easy to apply styling directly to a control. It can just be entered directly in the style attribute text box or the static section of the attribute editor.

While this is convenient, this is very bad practice as it cannot be overridden with CSS selectors. This means that it forces any further changes to require checking out sources and going through controls one by one to update them.

Suggestion
Keep control class attributes as they are, but force the developer to take more steps to apply in-line styling. Perhaps make it so that the style editor specifically has to be used, or have a pop-up confirmation message every time notifying the developer that they should use CSS classes over in-line styling. Anything to prevent the developer from copying style strings and just pasting them into control attribute after control attribute.

I can see the value in at least having the option, but it should be used only when needed and not just for convenience. So I feel that making it more inconvenient would dissuade the bad practice without taking it away for the times it's needed.

[CathyC]

task 11430 was created to track the discussion for this feature suggestion