Re: Grouped stylesheet statements

On Jul 26,  8:21am, Stuart Harris wrote:

> I'm beginning to find the needs of Dynamic HTML are forcing me to write
> repetitive style statements

> It would be convenient to have accepted notation for defining all four
> (or however many) at once. I can't find any such notation in the current
> CSS docs, so I propose that it be considered for a future version.
> Perhaps something such as...
>
> #player1pic;
> #player2pic;
> #player3pic;
> #player4pic;
> {
>   position: absolute; top: 5; left: 300; visibility: hidden;
> }

There already is a notation for assigning the same declarations to a bunch of
different selectors [1]. In your example

 #player1pic,
 #player2pic,
 #player3pic,
 #player4pic
 {
   position: absolute; top: 5; left: 300; visibility: hidden;
 }

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#grouping

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