T.J. Crowder wrote:
We use the class attribute a *lot*. To save our poor fingers, not to
mention reduce document sizes, would it be possible to introduce an
alternate syntax for simple situations (one class) mirroring the basic
CSS class selector syntax? E.g., this:
<div class='nifty'>nifty stuff here</div>
becomes
<div.nifty>nifty stuff here</div>
While the suggested syntax would undoubtedly be handy, I believe you're
attacking the wrong problem.
The class attribute is seldom needed when the CSS selectors are used
correctly withing a well structured document. Any browser that would
support a feature like this already supports a wide array of CSS
selectors allowing you to target any element in the document with only a
fraction having a dedicated class.
I suggest reading up on CSS selectors:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html
Once you have realized that you don't really need classes that much it
makes little or no sense to have a dedicated special case (which would
complicate the parser a great deal) just as a shorthand for the class
attribute.
I suspect the easiest solution is using a suitable tool to set up a
keyboard macro for adding 'class=""' into your source.
Regards,
Max
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