I like "styleclass", it seems the most self-documenting to me, but then
again I don't deal
in CSS much at all...


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:21 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm working on implementing
> http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7358
>
> We want to be able to use the concept of CSS classes (quite different from
> LZX classes) to style LZX nodes.  We want to be able to write style rules
> like:
>
>  .foo { backrgound-color: blue }
>
> In HTML, you assign CSS classes to your <div> by:
>
>  <div class="foo" ...
>
> In which case the above selector would apply to the div.
>
> ---
>
> In LZX, the word 'class' is already heavily overloaded, so we want to come
> up with a more expressive name for this feature.  In the bug we initially
> proposed:
>
>  <view cssclass="foo" ...
>
> and then proposed:
>
>  <view styleClass="foo" ...
>
> I lean toward naming this new class property `styleclass`, in keeping with
> the other LZX built-in properties being all lower case, and in keeping with
> the `value="$style{...}"` constraint and the `<attribute
> style="background-color"` syntax.  In our implementation, you will be able
> to use a space-separated list of classes, so that you can have several
> different class selectors apply at once, just as in true CSS.
>
> Comments?
>



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Henry Minsky
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