What’s so bad about in-line CSS?

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Having to change 100 lines of code when you want to make the site look different. That may not apply in your example, but if you’re using inline css for things like

<div style ="font-size:larger; text-align:center; font-weight:bold">

on each page to denote a page header, it would be a lot easier to maintain as

<div class="pageheader">

if the pageheader is defined in a single stylesheet so that if you want to change how a page header looks across the entire site, you change the css in one place.

However, I’ll be a heretic and say that in your example, I see no problem. You’re targeting the behavior of a single image, which probably has to look right on a single page, so putting the actual css in a stylesheet would probably be overkill.

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