Category specific css

You just need a Category Template and also check out
Different Category Format.

Thanks for the response, crayoncrisis. And unless I am misreading the information in the links you provided, I could make a specific template for a category, but that would be used for the category page.

What I want to do is assign a style sheet for a single post (that applies to all posts) in a category.

Alternatively, Ideally I would like the ability to do it to a for a single post with a specific tag. It makes no nevermind whether I use tags or categories, I just want to assign a stylesheet to a single item page that is either tagged or categorized to a corresponding item. Did that make sense?

Did I misread something?

Ah, I think that you are absolutely right. I didn’t get that part. The Template Hierarchy for single post display seems to be:

1. single.php
2. index.php

I’ve been using the Sandbox theme lately, and it has a function giving classes to the body element. Not quite what you were asking about, but it does give you a body with a class like s-category-dog, letting you style that specifically.

Hope someone else can answer about the seperate style sheets though, I want know that too now that I see this wouldn’t do the trick for a single post.

I’m also using the Sandbox theme, and the class selectors for individual elements are great. But what I’m looking to do is to style a whole bunch of selectors based upon a particular category or tag.

Is there a way to put a statement in the single.php page that goes something like:

if category = dog
then load dog.css
else load owner.css?

this is exactly what I came here looking for!

Hope there is a solution someday.
Seems that it shouldn’t be that hard, just not sure what the best way to attack this problem is.