[Zope3-dev] Re: CSS-Style-Guide / looking for help

[Tonico Strasser]

Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
> Tonico Strasser wrote:
> 
>> Peter Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> Does it somehow add some functionality because the css designer can 
>>> decide whether there are 2 classes for an element or something like 
>>> that?
>>
>>
>>
> Hi,
> 
>> Don't understand your question, but it should be easily possible to 
>> put two names in the class attribute.
>>
> 
> indeed you can write:
> 
> <div class="blueArea redFont orangeBox fancyFormStyle">
> ...
> </div>
> 
> because usually you want to define font shapes, area colors, etc for 
> your entire site and re-use them inside many widgets, portlets. etc...
> 
> This makes it possible to mix together CSS classes and avoid useless 
> duplications in case only the color of a widget changes and not the 
> fonts that it uses, CPSSkins uses that method of combining many CSS 
> class names together, (font shapes, colors, area shapes, colors, form 
> styles, etc...) to create composite styles for each object. It is a bit 
> like impressionism in a sense...
> 
> Which makes me wonder why one would want to set widget names in CSS 
> class names...

If you are refering to my example in a previos post, I don't want widget 
names in CSS class names, quite the contrast; the name(s) in the class 
attribute should be independent of the widget name if created dynamically.

Tonico