attribute templates

• From: Manos M. Batsis <manosb@profile.gr>
• Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:57:03 +0200
• To: <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <HOEKJKBDBAHOEMPDNCJDGECICFAA.manosb@profile.gr>

 I think the ability of doing the following would bring css coding into a different level.
Lets say i define a couple of classes as:

.templateOne{
background: #f3f3f3;
color:#ff0000;
text-align:right;
}

.templateOne{
background-image:url(myImage.gif);
border:1px solid #000000;
}

Now, to use these as templates in a new class i would do this:

.newclass{
templates:.templateOne, .templateTwo;
border:2px solid #ff0000;
}

Of course the attributes defined in .newclass supersedes the template ones.
One other useful function would be importing templates from a different .css file like:

.newclass{
templates:url(style2.css, .templateOne, .templateTwo) .template;
border:2px solid #ff0000;
}

where template lies in the same stylesheet as .newclass.

Just a thought... please do give some comments :-)

Manos

Received on Thursday, 11 January 2001 08:34:07 UTC