Visual Studio (2012 and lower) deletes CSS properties

Question

I have a really strange problem with Visual Studio 2010. When I add CSS properties for a gradient to my stylesheet, Visual Studio is going to delete it after some times of d

Answer 1

I have experienced this same issue as well in VS2010, and can confirm that the problem does not affect CSS3 styles. The only work around I can suggest is to place a copy of the disappearing line above itself in a comment so at least it is easy to copy back again.

/* filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#ffffff', EndColorStr='#efefef'); */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#ffffff', EndColorStr='#efefef');