Allow CSS rules to be enabled/disabled (...instead of being deleted)

You can also pseudo-disable a rule by removing all its exception/inclusion arguments.

However, I agree that this would be a good feature -- removing the exception/inclusion arguments just so you can temporarily suspend a style rule potentially results in loss of history -- there's no method for reversion to the earlier state, aside from manually recording those arguments somewhere.

EDIT: One workaround that occured to me after clicking save would be to set the exclusion/inclusion criteria to PHP, and surround the argument set with PHP comments. E.g.:

/*
parthpart1/pathpart2
pathpart3/*
*/

However, as my goal is always to produce a site that clients can maintain, this isn't really a proper method from my perspective.

Also, my example exposes a potential weakness of the tactic: That some wildcards will break the comment set. So, it would make more sense maybe to use "//"-leaders. I think that would fail to load the sheet for all pages if you neglected to remove the comment-markers after un-setting the PHP selection.

+1 for this

Yes, please this would be very useful. I'm currently trying out different themes, and want to disable some CSS which I added to a previous theme, and will want to re-instate if I re-enable it.

Nice thought Drew! Still, this issue is about finding an easy way to reuse old rules instead of deleting and creating them again when they are needed. So, I think you should create a new issue for your feature request. Anyhow, your feature will surely depend on this one being implemented first I guess.

@Drew, #4: your request lives here: #353386: Allow applicable theme(s) to be selected to apply rule to

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