This sounds like a job for <button> and Javascript.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alan C. Whiteman Visualis Web Design http://visualis.us (562) 305-2862 On Saturday 23 January 2010 16:02:39 you wrote: > ********************************************************************* > WEB STANDARDS GROUP MAIL LIST DIGEST > ********************************************************************* > > > From: "Erickson, Kevin (DOE)" <kevin.erick...@doe.virginia.gov> > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:22:31 -0500 > Subject: CSS off button > > Hello fellow WSG'ers. > > Could anyone please tell me if there is a right way to put a clickable > button in a web page that will turn off all CSS? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > > ********************************************************************* > From: Paul Novitski <p...@juniperwebcraft.com> > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:44:30 -0800 > Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS off button > > At 1/22/2010 12:22 PM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote: > >Could anyone please tell me if there is a right way to put a > >clickable button in a web page that will turn off all CSS? > > To be perhaps overly precise, I'm guessing that you probably don't > want to turn off *all* styling because that would render your > document as one long string of undifferentiated text, but instead you > want to keep the browser's default styling and/or the user's custom > styling and suppress the page author's additional styling. > > The approach would most likely be to strip out the style elements > from the html head and the style attributes from all elements on the > page. I think it would be unreasonable to ask a program to also > suppress styling imposed by client-side scripting but if you were > being paid enough this would be doable. > > The best practice way to do this would be, first of all, to provide a > submit button or link that asked a server-side script to re-deliver > the current page with style elements and attributes removed. Then you > could add a JavaScript layer that intercepted the button click and > stripped away styling on the fly. I don't think removing the style > elements in the head after a page is rendered has the desired effect, > so you'd probably have to delete all the children of the style object > in addition to deleting the style attributes on the page. > > Depending on your purpose, you'd also want to decide whether to strip > other presentational elements and attributes at the same time. > > Regards, > > Paul > __________________________ > > Paul Novitski > Juniper Webcraft Ltd. > http://juniperwebcraft.com > > > ********************************************************************* > From: Nick Stone <boa...@nick-stone.com> > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:51:19 -0500 > Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS off button > > Kevin, > > I believe you could do it with PHP by having your "Off" button reload > the page, replacing your default header with one that omits your CSS > file(s). You could use a cookie to make the other pages also load > without CSS until the switch is toggled again. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
