Is there a proper and wrong way to format CSS?

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Published on 2010-05-28T17:26:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 17:31 UTC
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When I first started writing CSS, I was writing it in an expanded form

div.class {
    margin:      10px 5px 3px;
    border:      1px solid #333;
    font-weight: bold;
    }
    .class .subclass {
        text-align:right;
        }

but now I find myself writing css like this: (Example from code I'm actually writing now)

.object1 {}
    .scrollButton{width:44px;height:135px;}
        .scrollButton img {padding:51px 0 0 23px;}
.object2 {width:165px;height:94px;margin:15px 0 0 23px;padding:15px 0 0 10px;background:#fff;}
    .featuredObject .symbol{line-height:30px; padding-top:6px;}
    .featuredObject .value {width:90px;}
        .featuredObject .valueChange {padding:5px 0 0 0;}
        .featuredObject img {position:absolute;margin:32px 0 0 107px;}

and I'm beginning to worry because a lot of the time I see the first form done in examples online, while I find the second form a lot easier for me to work with. It has a lower vertical height, so I can see all the classes at a glance with less scrolling, the tabulation of the hierarchy seems more apparent, and it looks more like code I'd write with javascript or html. Is this a valid way of doing code, or to keep with standards when putting it online should I use the vertical form instead?

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