Re: [Stupid newbie probably OT philosophical musings] Does CSS need a mapping/composition layer?

Jay Levitt:
> To my novice eye, what I want is a layer in between HTML and CSS  
> that says
>
>   #firstname #lastname {group: horizontal; id: name;}
>   #city #state #zip #country {group: horizontal; id: region;}
>   #name #address1 #address2 #region {group: vertical; }

I'm not sure wherein your problem lies. As far as I can see you can  
achieve what you want with perfectly semantic grouping of form fields  
by |div| or rather |fieldset| combined with child selectors and | 
float| in CSS. Even a table containing the form can be justified  
(although that can be done wrong easily).