Re: [CSSOM] Can we have a .computedStyle in ElementCSSInlineStyle

> On Saturday 2008-07-12 16:06 -0700, Garrett Smith wrote:
>> >> However, I'd note that there may be value in two different forms of
>> >> specified style:
>> >>
>> >> * a CSSStyleDeclaration that has all properties specified in author
>> >>  style sheets
>> >>
>> >> * a CSSStyleDeclaration that has all properties specified at all
>> >>  levels of the cascade
>> >>
>> >> I think the first of these would be preferable for editing-type
>> >> tasks (manipulating markup intended to be used later).  The second
>> >> would be a little more like getComputedStyle.
>> >
>>
>> You lost me on that one. What was it you were trying to explain?
>
> I was saying it might be worth having two different APIs.  Let's
> call them (for purposes of this example; I think these are bad
> names) element.authorSpecifiedStyle and element.allSpecifiedStyle.

If we want to preserve compatibility with IE's names (that exists sinds 
1998), we need :
- currentStyle (all existing rules. If no value, then return the default 
value. If default value is inherit, compute the value of the parent)
- authorStyle (only rules defined in author's stylesheets. If no value, then 
return null)

> An example to show the difference between the two:  if the UA style
> sheet has:
>  h1 { font-weight: bold; font-size: 200%; }
> and the page's style sheet has:
>  h1 { text-decoration: underline; }
> then:
>  element.authorSpecifiedStyle.textDecoration == "underline"
>  element.allSpecifiedStyle.textDecoration == "underline"
>  element.authorSpecifiedStyle.fontWeight == ""
>  element.allSpecifiedStyle.fontWeight == "bold"

So we can get :
(ua-css) h1 { font-size: 200%; font-weight: bold; }
(ath-css) div.a { font-size: 15px; }
(ath-css) div.a > h1 { text-decoration: underline; }
(ath-css) <div class="a"><h1 style="color: darkblue;">Some title</h1></div>

h1.[style].fontSize:
    - style : ""
    - authorStyle : null
    - currentStyle : "200%"
    - computedStyle : "30px"

h1.[style].fontWeight:
    - style : ""
    - authorStyle : null
    - currentStyle : "bold"
    - computedStyle : "bold"

h1.[style].textDecoration:
    - style : ""
    - authorStyle : "underline"
    - currentStyle : "underline"
    - computedStyle : "underline"

h1.[style].color:
    - style : "darkblue"
    - authorStyle : "darkblue"
    - currentStyle : "darkblue"
    - computedStyle : "#rrggbb"

Right ?

Regards,
Fremy

>
> -David
>
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Received on Sunday, 13 July 2008 20:12:37 UTC