- From: Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:19:43 +0100
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
I think part of the OP's suggestion correlates to a more
generic feature; inheritance or composition between CSS
rules. The lack of this causes us to have to repeat
ourselves when wanting to map property assignments to
multiple element selections. Example:
input[type="radio"] {
color: #444;
font-size: 77%;
/*other settings for radio*/
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
color: #444;
font-size: 77%;
/*other settings for radio*/
}
Above we have to repeat the common property assignments.
As an alternative, they may be extracted to a separate
rule but then we have to repeat the selectors instead:
input[type="radio"], input[type="checkbox"] {
color: #444;
font-size: 77%;
}
input[type="radio"] {...}
input[type="checkbox"] {...}
Adding the possibility to let one rule inherit the
property assignments from another rule (or actually
declaration set) could look something like this:
.mycolorandfont {
color: #444;
font-size: 77%;
}
input[type="radio"] {
INHERIT_DECLS(.mycolorandfont);
/*other settings for radio*/
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
INHERIT_DECLS(.mycolorandfont);
/*other settings for radio*/
}
Note that I am not suggesting any particular syntax here,
it could be using normal classes like above, some new @-
rules, or maybe something completely different based on
object-oriented keywords.
Best regards
Mike Wilson
Received on Friday, 8 February 2008 09:20:15 UTC