- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:53:42 -0800
- To: Philip Walton <philip@philipwalton.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On 1/17/13, Philip Walton <philip@philipwalton.com> wrote:
> I recently posted a proposal on my website for how I think CSS could/should
> handle the concept of extending a base class:
> http://philipwalton.com/articles/the-future-of-oocss-a-proposal/
>
> Tab sent me a link to this discussion from August started by David Baron,
> and my proposal basically aligns with method (b) that he suggests:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Aug/0363.html
>
> I've spent a lot of time thinking about this problem and trying to make it
> work with in Sass; I've firmly come to the conclusion that preprocessors
> can't handle this all by themselves. The article goes into a lot of detail
> why.
>
Sass? No idea about that one.
> Anyway, I'd love to be part of any discussion on this topic, which is why
> I'm sending this to the list.
>
Use multiple classes where you think you need to extend.
.panel {
position: absolute;
}
.cadillac-panel {
border: 12px outset maroon;
}
<div class="panel cadillac-panel" ...>
var cp = document.querySelectorAll("cadillac-panel");
> TL;DR for the article:
>
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Garrett
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