Re: [CSS3 proposal] 'replace-by-image' property

This is already covered in the CSS3 "generated content" draft: http:// 
www.w3.org/TR/css3-content/#inserting3

@media screen {
     a { content:url(mail.png) "Mail" }
}
@media print {
     a { content:"Mail" }
}

<a class="mail" href="mailto:a@b.c"></a>

would achieve what you want: on screen, the content of the <a> tag  
will be set to the URL if it's found, and the text "Mail" if it's not.

Cheers... Mike


On 1 Aug 2007, at 11:42, Nikodem wrote:

>
> I think that [X]HTML image tag <img src="..." /> is OK for content- 
> related images (photos for articles etc.), but not for navigation  
> (<ul><li><a href="mailto:a@b.c"><img src="mail.png" alt="Mail" /></ 
> a></li></ul>), where it is going to be a little presentational. It  
> could be made so:
>
> 	<style type="text/css">
> 	ul li#mail{replace-by-image:url("mail.png");}
> 	@media print{ul li#mail{replace-by-image:none;}}
> 	</style>
>
> 	<ul><li id="mail"><a href="mailto:a@b.c">Mail</a></li></ul>
>
> If the image could not be loaded (or document would be printed), then
> only text would be displayed, otherwise there would appear mail.png  
> image.
>
> That gives a possibility of editing look of page only from CSS, not  
> [X]HTML. Earlier I had many problems with making printable versions  
> of page (e.g. overriding logo by black'n'white version was  
> requiring separated printable version in another HTML document).
>
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