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-family:
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 we were
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
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
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:
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:
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
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
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
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 reasonable thing to
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
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: Verdana,
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 parsers will
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 be coming
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
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 the CSS and it
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... could
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
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
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