You can view a list of all styles in your project where the same properties have been set. For example, let's say you have a style called "p.tip" and another style called "p.note." If you have specified the same settings for each of these styles (e.g., red font, 12 pt), with no other properties set, these styles will be included in the Duplicate Styles window pane. Groups or pairs of duplicate styles are displayed in alternating shaded rows (e.g., the rows for the first pair of duplicate styles are not shaded, the rows for the next group are shaded, the rows for the next group are not shaded, and so on). If you encounter duplicate styles, you may want to modify the settings for one or both styles, or you can remove one of the style classes from the stylesheet.
How to View Duplicate Styles
- Open a project.
- Select Analysis > More Reports > Duplicate Style Formats. The Duplicate Style Formats window pane opens, displaying all topics in your project where there are duplicate styles.
- To see more of the information in the window pane, drag the divider bar to make the pane wider.
- Pair Index Displays a number to represent the group of duplicate styles. The first group of duplicate styles has an index of 1. The next group of duplicate styles has an index of 2. The next group has an index of 3, and so on.
- Selector Displays the style name.
- Declarations Displays the properties that have been set for the style. For all styles in an "index pair," these properties are identical.
- Medium Displays the medium to which the style properties are applied. If this cell is blank, the style properties are simply used in the default medium. For more information about style medium types, please see Mediums and Media Queries.
- File Displays the name of the file.
- Folder Displays the folder where the file is found.
- If a certain number of items have been found, page navigation buttons in the local toolbar may be enabled. You can use these buttons to go to additional pages to display more items. You can also click View All in the local toolbar to see all results on a single page. Keep in mind that the more items you have in the project, the longer it will take to load this view.
Note You can open any file in the list to view or modify it in the Stylesheet Editor. You can either double-click on the specific row, or right-click on the row and select Open.
Note Duplicate styles are displayed only if they are based on the same tag. For example, if you have identical properties set for the styles "p.tip" and "p.note," they will be included in the window pane (because they are both based on the p style). However, if you have identical properties set for the styles "p.tip" and "h4.note," they will not be included in the window pane (because one is based on the p style, whereas the other is based on the h4 style).
Note You can also include this information in reports that you create.
