On 2/18/06, Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would you really want to be able to write CSS rules like this?
>
> d(iv|l)(.|#)cont(act|ent) (p(re){0,1}|dt)
> {
> border(-.+){0,1}: 1px solid #000;
> }
Do you know how much slower CSS would get if w
At 08:30 AM 1/25/2006, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>Just to be clear, it's a totally reasonable thing to expect
>from CSS. It would be nice to be able to define
>
>h[0-9] {
> font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
>}
>
>instead of the ungainly
>
>h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, h7, h8, h9 {
> font-f
tedd wrote:
> >http://www.sperling.com/examples/pcss/
Tedd, the particular PHP syntactical technique you've used in your
pcss article will trip over its own shoelaces as soon as the first
{background: url("xxx")} is encountered.
Instead of enclosing the whole stylesheet in double-quotes as yo
Ok, this is actually OFF-Topic, just a quick note:
I didn't say Tedd's solution was intrinsicly bad and I think it is
great that he answered so quickly to a problem somebody asked here.
However, it is important to point out flaws of solutions. I expect
that from anyone here, as this is the only wa
Zoe:
>Tedd,
>
>Please add this link to this page in the wiki:
>http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ConstantsInCSS
Sure, what do you want me to call it?
>And everyone, we can just point people here whenever this FAQ comes up
>(seems to be coming up a lot more frequently lately...).
Hmmm... coul
Chris:
Not meaning to be argumentative, but:
> > >or is there another way to do this to accomodate elements being created on
>> >the fly?
>> See:
>>
> > http://www.sperling.com/examples/pcss/
>
>This kills every color coding your IDE might have, fails when someone
>uses " for any reason in th
I am continually scripting CSS, because for one of the main sites I
work on the images are coming out of a CMS, so I need to write a
references asp.net whenever I want a background-image. Colours are
also dynamic in some parts of the site.
However, over two years of hardcore CSS work, I have found
tedd wrote:
>>How flexible are wildcards in CSS?
>>
>>
>
>http://www.sperling.com/examples/pcss/
>
>
>
Tedd,
Please add this link to this page in the wiki:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ConstantsInCSS
And everyone, we can just point people here whenever this FAQ comes up
(seems to
> >or is there another way to do this to accomodate elements being created on
> >the fly?
> See:
>
> http://www.sperling.com/examples/pcss/
This kills every color coding your IDE might have, fails when someone
uses " for any reason in the CSS and it means the CSS will not be
cached.
All CSS parse
> > CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it.
> > You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere.
>
> Just to be clear, it's a totally reasonable thing to expect
> from CSS. It would be nice to be able to define
>
> h[0-9] {
> font-family: V
>How flexible are wildcards in CSS?
>suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled
>like so:
>
>.dynamic_rightnav-1 li{border:1px dotted red;}
>.dynamic_rightnav-2 li{border:1px dotted red;}
>...and so forth
>
>can I use the wildcard
>.dynamic_rightnav-* li{border:1px
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:19:42AM -0500, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote:
>
>
>>CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it.
>>You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere.
>>
>>
>
>Just to be clear, it's a totally reasona
Jim Ryan wrote:
>Regular expressions in a stylesheet definition would be a tremendous help in
>defining multiple duplicate styles. Let's hope something like this is in the
>works.
>
>
I doubt it. It gets brought up on www-style periodically and brought
back down. :-)
If you need regular expr
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:19:42AM -0500, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote:
> CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it.
> You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere.
Just to be clear, it's a totally reasonable thing to expect
from CSS. It would be ni
I suppose you could build a layer atop CSS -- say, a program
that parses a "CSS+Regexen" sheet, looks at the HTML to
which it's being applied, finds the elements in the HTML
that match the regex, and generates a stylesheet containing
those elements. But it's not part of CSS.
Regular expressions
Jim Ryan wrote:
>How flexible are wildcards in CSS?
>
>
CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it.
You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere.
>suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled
>like so:
>
>.dyna
On 25/01/06, Jim Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How flexible are wildcards in CSS?
CSS doesn't have wild cards. The * character is a universal selector,
which matches any element, it isn't a wild card.
> suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled
> like so:
>
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Jim Ryan wrote:
> can I use the wildcard
> .dynamic_rightnav-* li{border:1px dotted red;}
This comes up often:
http://www.hixie.ch/specs/css/wwwstyle/#selectors
Sadly, the answer is no.
I suppose you could build a layer atop CSS -- say, a program
that pa
How flexible are wildcards in CSS?
suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled
like so:
.dynamic_rightnav-1 li{border:1px dotted red;}
.dynamic_rightnav-2 li{border:1px dotted red;}
...and so forth
can I use the wildcard
.dynamic_rightnav-* li{border:1px dotted re
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