[pmwiki-users] Question about (:css .class { properties } :)

Wed Mar 30 23:53:37 CST 2005

Thanks Pm this was very helpful.

/JF

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:37:27AM -0600, John Feezell wrote:
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>>I'm looking at the (:css .class { properties } :) markup and was hoping 
>>that I could get some answers to the following questions:
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>>1.  Is this code active in the latest version of PmWiki?
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>No, as there's still a fair amount of discussion/debate about the
>name of the directive and how it should be integrated into the whole
>(especially its relationship to WikiStyles).
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>>2.  How would it look in actual use?
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>My original proposal was
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>   (:css .someclass { property list } :)
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>which would result in .someclass being added to the page's inline
>stylesheet via $HTMLStylesFmt.  Also, in my proposal, only simple
>CSS classes would be allowed -- i.e., an author would not be able to 
>change element styles via something like:
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>   (:css body { ... } :)
>   (:css #wikileft { ... } :)
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>>3.  When is it applied in the markup process?
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>Probably as a directive, but it probably doesn't make a lot of
>difference.
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>>4.  What effect does it have on a page and its contents?
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>Well, that would depend on how an author uses the directive and
>what classes are being used within the page itself.  But effectively
>it just generates additional stylesheet rules in the <head> section
>of the document.
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