Re: @media in style attribute

Bert Bos <bert@w3.org> scribed:
>
> Philip Hoyt wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to find a way to specify media type for a css rule
> > in the style attribute of xhtml. Something like
> > <img src="printLogo.gif" style="@media print {display: block}
> > @media screen {display:none}" /> but this doesn't seem to be
> > part of any specification, and at least that syntax doesn't work in
> > any modern browsers. Seems like it might be useful functionality.
>
> This is indeed not part of any specification, neither for HTML nor
> for CSS. There is a draft that describes it[1] (not the same syntax,
> but it allows that functionality), but the use cases are so rare, that
> nothing has happened with it since and there is currently no sign
> that anything will.
>
> If you want the style rule inside the document, you can use the
> MEDIA attribute of the STYLE element, or put the @media inside
> the STYLE element. If that is not enough, than there is a good
>chance that your architecture isn't optimal.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css-style-attr-20020515

This would mostly be useful to ease the styling of transclusions
in my opinion.  Until transclusions become useful, there is little
benefit to the two more expansive profiles given by the draft.

The description in the draft and the grammar given in the draft
don't match.  Going by the description, using @media directly
doesn't work, but going by the grammar given in section 3,
it does.  I think the rule:

inline-stylesheet
 : S* [declarations|declarations-block|inline-ruleset*|stylesheet]
 ;

was possibly intended to have been:

inline-stylesheet
 : S* [declarations|declarations-block|inline-ruleset*|import]
 ;

so as to match the description and the apparent intent of the draft.

It would be possible to handle media at the pseudo-rules profile
level by adding a :media() pseudoclass.  That would make the
example given above be:

<img src="printLogo.gif" style=":media(print) {display: block}
:media(screen) {display:none}" />

Received on Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:36:31 UTC