On 7/13/2013 9:29 AM, André Warnier wrote: > Alireza Fattahi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My situation is this: >> The site which i work should work in RTL and LTR modes ( I am using >> YAML for layout) >> >> The site.css should have this for LTR: >> >> @import url(../yaml/navigation/hlist.css); >> @import url(../yaml/forms/gray-theme.css); >> @import url(../yaml/screen/typography.css); >> @import url(../yaml/screen/screen-FULLPAGE-layout.css); >> >> for RTL it must have >> >> @import url(../../yaml/add-ons/rtl-support/core/base-rtl.css); >> @import url(../../yaml/add-ons/rtl-support/navigation/hlist-rtl.css); >> @import url(../../yaml/add-ons/rtl-support/forms/gray-theme-rtl.css); >> >> So I want to path a parameter to CSS and do some thing like this: >> >> http://www.mysite.com/site.css?direction=rtl >> >> and in the CSS >> @import >> url(../../yaml/add-ons/rtl-support/core/base-<%=request.getParameter("direction")%>.css); >> >> >> I donot want to to use if parameters in the jsp and do some thing >> like this: >> if request.getParameter("direction")="RTL" >> { >> <link href="styles/site-rtl.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> >> >> } >> else{ >> <link href="styles/site-ltr.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> >> >> } > > I agree that the above does not look very elegant. > > I don't really know JSP syntax, but can't you do something like > > <link href="styles/site-<% request.getParameter("direction") %>.css" > rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> > > I am looking at this from a naive point of view, and thinking about > the poor guys who are going to have to debug one of these pages in 12 > month's time, and who'll have to figure out that the .css stylesheets > on that site are not, as usual, plain CSS files usable everywhere, but > have to be processed like JSP files. > (Also, if you ever have to give this to a graphic guy, he may have > some trouble working with this). > I guess that there is nothing wrong in the /principle/ of having a CSS > file being compiled into a servlet generating a CSS document, but > somehow it does not seem the most straightforward thing to do. > > > >> >> >> The problem is that, although you set the mime type of css to >> text/css in web.xml. it does not take effect. >> I just find a bad work around which you must put <%@page >> contentType="text/css" %>in top of all css files >> >> >> ~Regards, >> ~~Alireza Fattahi >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> >> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, 13 >> July 2013, 14:21 >> Subject: Re: JSP in Static Resources >> >> >> Alireza Fattahi wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to add some jsp code in to my site.css. >> >> Maybe it is just me, but that does not seem to make any sense. >> Usually, it would be the other way around. >> Can you explain why you want to do this ? >> >> The idea of JSP is to have Java code which in the end produces a HTML >> page which is sent to the browser. The JSP is compiled into a >> servlet, which is executed when the browser "calls" that JSP page. >> The servlet produces HTML, which is sent the browser. >> The HTML page may contain links to CSS stylesheets, Javascript >> libraries etc. >> The browser retrieves these directly, as static objects, when it >> finds a link in the HTML. >> A CSS stylesheet is meant to provide instructions to the browser, >> about how to /render/ (display nicely) the final product, which is >> the HTML page (produced by the JSP/servlet). >> I cannot really imagine a scenario in which having Java code in there >> would make any sense. At the very least, that would make the later >> maintenance of that application hopelessly confusing. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
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