Maybe, but aren't you defending Plum's condition that stylesheets have a
file extension of .css This is limiting.
One of the most powerful things about "dynamic database-driven"
websites/applications is the ability to write one simple piece of code and
watch the display of information change infinitely based solely on the stuff
in the database. This is obvious when we are talking about content. Write a
page that displays bank account transactions and a million different people
can use the same page (of code.)
But consider the ramifications of bringing dynamic-data to a style sheet:
We write ONE style sheet and we have a _db table that holds "display
information" such as:
What color would you like the page background to be?
( #bodyBG# )
What type-face, font-family, would you like your text to be in?
( #fontFamily# )
And what color would you like that text?
( #textColor# )
And then in your style sheet:
body {
background-color: ##bodyBG#;
font-family: ##fontFamily#;
color ##textColor#;
}
etc.
Yes, of course, you can write a dozen different *static* stylesheets and
give the user the ability to choose which "site style" they'd like to use.
But the point is that by enabling a style sheet with dynamic variables you
can conceivably create an infinite number of websites using just one style
sheet by letting the user answer a few questions.
Respectfully yours,
Dan Kaufman
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Subject: Re: [plum] dynamic variables in Plum stylesheets
But you *would* be picking from a list: a dropdown list of defined styles in
the formatting bar of the ActivEdit editor.
Respectfully,
Adam Phillip Churvis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:52 PM
Subject: RE: [plum] dynamic variables in Plum stylesheets
The content in question is text + image. The CSS floats the image left or
right and the text wraps around the image.
I suppose I could define multiple classes, one with float: left; another
with float: right; etc. and then give the user the ability to choose. But it
seems simpler to just let the user pick form a list box, left, right, middle
and then pass that value back as float: #pImgAign#;
Dan
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [plum] dynamic variables in Plum stylesheets
It sounds like an overly-complicated way to accomplish your goal. Why isn't
the user just choosing the position by choosing the appropriate class in an
editor that enables you to do this, like ActivEdit?
Respectfully,
Adam Phillip Churvis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:43 PM
Subject: [plum] dynamic variables in Plum stylesheets
I guess this is a question "how to" to Adam and David, as well as being put
out to the Plum Community for thoughts and ideas on.
Historically in my work for the Content Management System "backend" for a
website I have given the user the ability (for example) when choosing an
image for a content page, to choose its placement as left, right, middle.
This is a value that is written to the pageContent_db table. THEN my
stylesheets have been named "whateverStyle.cfm" and the variable
#pImgAlign"# is used in the class definition. Thus the stylesheet takes on
a dynamic quality changing what it dishes up by letting the user set values.
What I see with Plum is that "Plum stylesheet names always end in
styles.css"
My first thought to accommodate my desire to enable my users to make simple
compositional changes to their content pages is to write the class def as an
inline declaration in the display code and either leave out (or cascadingly
overwrite) the baseStylesheet.css. But this has a cludgy nature and
definitely violates the principle of "one for all"
Anyone have any thoughts on this? I may (as usual) be missing the obvious,
but I don't think so. I need to define a CSS class in the stylyesheet and I
would like to have database driven variables in the stylesheet to give my
users this control.
Yours truly,
Dan Kaufman
An Elephant Never Forgets
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