[css-d] Use of brackets
I am working with a style sheet that makes wide use of this syntax:
TABLE.BODY{
border-style: solid;
border-color: LOGOCOLOR;
background-color: BGCOLOR;
}
I have done a good deal of searching on CSS sites without finding
anything that addresses this. I assume that the brackets refer to a
previously defined value, but I thus far I don't have any idea where to
look.
Any suggestions?
Bill Braun
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Re: [css-d] Use of brackets
Follow-on...
Pulled the trigger just a minute too soon. It was defined in another
file using the str_replace() function. At least I assume this is where
it is defined. It looks like this:
$text=str_replace(LOGOCOLOR,#.$logocolor,$text);
I have not yet tracked down the other variables.
Bill Braun
On 6/2/2011 5:57 PM, Bill Braun wrote:
I am working with a style sheet that makes wide use of this syntax:
TABLE.BODY{
border-style: solid;
border-color: LOGOCOLOR;
background-color: BGCOLOR;
}
I have done a good deal of searching on CSS sites without finding
anything that addresses this. I assume that the brackets refer to a
previously defined value, but I thus far I don't have any idea where
to look.
Any suggestions?
Bill Braun
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Re: [css-d] Use of brackets
It's an easy mistake to make.
Remember that CSS is a browser-side language, just like HTML and
JavaScript. The code you're looking at on your server is not CSS code - it's
a template (or PHP code, or whatever) that your server uses to *generate*
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The browser doesn't see any of that server code. It doesn't know about PHP
or those substitution variables or anything like that. All it sees is the
final output.
So if you're troubleshooting CSS, look at the generated CSS, not the server
code. Use View Source or other browser tools so that you see what the
browser is seeing. Then if something is amiss, you can refer back to the
server template or code that generated your CSS.
-Mike
(top-posted for consistency with the existing thread)
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Bill Braun bbr...@hlthsys.com wrote:
Follow-on...
Pulled the trigger just a minute too soon. It was defined in another file
using the str_replace() function. At least I assume this is where it is
defined. It looks like this:
$text=str_replace(LOGOCOLOR,#.$logocolor,$text);
I have not yet tracked down the other variables.
Bill Braun
On 6/2/2011 5:57 PM, Bill Braun wrote:
I am working with a style sheet that makes wide use of this syntax:
TABLE.BODY{
border-style: solid;
border-color: LOGOCOLOR;
background-color: BGCOLOR;
}
I have done a good deal of searching on CSS sites without finding anything
that addresses this. I assume that the brackets refer to a previously
defined value, but I thus far I don't have any idea where to look.
Any suggestions?
Bill Braun
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Re: [css-d] Use of brackets
Apologies for the initial top post. Running too fast.
Michael, many thanks for the explanation, it has served to open some
insights about the difference between generated and server code, which I
had not understood clearly.
Bill
On 6/2/2011 6:55 PM, Michael Geary wrote:
It's an easy mistake to make.
Remember that CSS is a browser-side language, just like HTML and
JavaScript. The code you're looking at on your server is not CSS code
- it's a template (or PHP code, or whatever) that your server uses to
*generate* HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The browser doesn't see any of that server code. It doesn't know about
PHP or those substitution variables or anything like that. All it sees
is the final output.
So if you're troubleshooting CSS, look at the generated CSS, not the
server code. Use View Source or other browser tools so that you see
what the browser is seeing. Then if something is amiss, you can refer
back to the server template or code that generated your CSS.
-Mike
(top-posted for consistency with the existing thread)
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Bill Braun bbr...@hlthsys.com
mailto:bbr...@hlthsys.com wrote:
Follow-on...
Pulled the trigger just a minute too soon. It was defined in
another file using the str_replace() function. At least I assume
this is where it is defined. It looks like this:
$text=str_replace(LOGOCOLOR,#.$logocolor,$text);
I have not yet tracked down the other variables.
Bill Braun
On 6/2/2011 5:57 PM, Bill Braun wrote:
I am working with a style sheet that makes wide use of this
syntax:
TABLE.BODY{
border-style: solid;
border-color: LOGOCOLOR;
background-color: BGCOLOR;
}
I have done a good deal of searching on CSS sites without
finding anything that addresses this. I assume that the
brackets refer to a previously defined value, but I thus far I
don't have any idea where to look.
Any suggestions?
Bill Braun
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