Actually, no, I've done it using the stylesheet before, It requires a lot of absolute positioning and it's a headache to edit in different browsers ::coughIEcough::

And no, it's not *duplicate* content - it's *different* content.

Basically, the problem is like so (and I'll set it out as best I can here) - I've done it this way before, and as I said, it's a total headache to do.

We want 3 *different* descriptions for each product. The products listing page would have a tiny, short description:

[image here]
Title of Product
snippet of "cute" description

Then on the product detail page:

Title here
[image here]
Specific details, such as weight of product, sizes available, color, etc.
products price
add to cart box
more descriptive and "flourishy" description here

Now, I *know* I could use CSS and HTML to lay it out something like so in the "description" area of the products:

<p class="specifics">
Specific details, such as weight of product, sizes available, color, etc.
</p>

<p class="descriptive">
more descriptive and "flourishy" description here
</p>

And then use CSS to set margins and positioning so that the classes are separated with the price and quantity in the middle of the two sections. but I don't want to do that. Like I said, I've done it before, and successfully - but it's a lot of extra work that's really not necessary. This also seems to be something my clients want *a lot* - I haven't had one yet who didn't want a setup similar to this, so using the CSS trick is just way too time-consuming. (Yes, I've also done hiding, display:none, and stuff like that for other variations on the same theme)

If I had 3 (or more/less, but this site needs 3 - the last site I did could have just used 2) different fields for descriptive text, then I could place them quite easily, as needed, without any need to use absolute positioning and fudging with margins, floats and the like. It would be *much* quicker if I had this ability to add (or not to add) extra descriptive text to the product, and just call it in as I need it.

Again, this isn't spammy. It's text that describes the product an a couple of different ways. I could do this exact thing on a static site, and it wouldn't be considered "spammy" content. It's just a method of making the content text flow a little differently, and allowing it to be broken up. That's all.

So if there's a better way than hacking to get a couple of extra description fields, that would be great to know :)