See my comments below:

"Benoit Marchant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In a test I've been doing, I used not a class="", but I declare a style 
> in a <style></style> for each of the layers using their ID
> like
> 
> <style>
> #layer1 {position:absolute; width: ....}
> .blueBg {background-color:blue;}
> </style>
> 
> and <div id= layer1> Some html </div>
> 
> As far as I understand it class is meant to control the style of 
> multiple objects. So for example, if you wanted a set of layers to all 
> have a blue background, you would add class=blueBg

Yes but the css would cascade from the object to the class definition.
So class background-color would override object background-color.

-
Kevin
 

> So both are different. I think we need a way to tell dynlayers not to 
> generate an inline style, when one would exists for it's ID. Now should 
> we on top of that be able to generate something like <DIV ID=myLayer 
> style="AStyle"></DIV>, probably,and of course be able to set a class=""
> As three options are valid ways of doing it, I think we should handled 
> them.
> 
> Benoit
> 
> On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 02:57  PM, Raymond Irving wrote:
> 
> > Sounds ok to me, but how about the following:
> >
> > lyr.setClass(name,noPreStyle);
> >
> > When noPreStyle is set to true the api will completely
> > remove the style="..." string from <divs> and will
> > ignore bgcolor, width, height, left, top, etc for
> > <layers> and <ilayers>. The end result is that layers
> > will be created much faster.
> >
> > lyr.setClass('blue_style,box_style',true);
> >
> > This would require the user to specify all the values
> > (e.g. left,top width,etc) of the layer inside the css
> > class.
> >
> > To give the user greater flexibility we could then
> > allow them to pass the value 'basic' to the setClass()
> > function to have the api only generate the left, top,
> > width and heigth values for the style object.
> >
> > lyr.setClass('blue_style','basic');
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > --
> > Raymond Irving
> >
> >
> > --- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've heard Raymond may be doing something in the
> >> area of
> >> dynapi style objects? Sorry if I've got the wrong
> >> idea.
> >>
> >> Could we have a simple starting point by just
> >> passing a class
> >> name to the DynLayer constructor or e.g.
> >> lyr.setClass('note').
> >>
> >> The string 'class="note"' would be inserted in the
> >> div/layer/ilayer
> >> tag before the big 'style="..."' string so we can
> >> pick up a
> >> prepared style sheet class from a <style>...</style>
> >> section.
> >>
> >> -
> >> Kevin
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