Make CSS 3.0 the Default in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Web Update

Question

I'm working on a HTML5 / CSS 3.0 / MVC 3 project in Visual Studio 2010. Every time I restart VS and then open a CSS file, it's always set to 'CSS 2.1'. Is there a way to tell VS I want to use CSS 3.0 always (or at least by default)?

BTW, I have looked under "Tools>Options>Text Editor>HTML" - no CSS options, default is HTML5. I have also looked under "Tools>Options>Text Editor>CSS" - no version option as far as I can see.

Thanks, Michael

Answer 1

I had a similar problem after SP1.
I had to specifically install the "CSS 3 Intellisense Schema" found here -->

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/7211bcac-091b-4a32-be2d-e797be0db210

Restart VS and it started remembering what I had set last. HTH

Answer 2

The default CSS schema is defined by the selected HTML schema, but there is no UI to change the CSS schema targeted by the HTML schema. You will have to do it manually by editing the appropriate HTML schema.

To have HTML 5 target CSS 3.0, edit

"\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html\html_5.xsd"

and change vs:cssschema to "CSS 3.0".