Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynLayer style sheet class.

[Kevin <ke...@ke...>]

See my comments below:

"Raymond Irving" <xw...@ya...> wrote:
> Sounds ok to me, but how about the following:
> 
> lyr.setClass(name,noPreStyle);
> 
> When noPreStyle is set to true the api will completely
> remove the style="..." string from <divs> and will
> ignore bgcolor, width, height, left, top, etc for
> <layers> and <ilayers>. The end result is that layers
> will be created much faster.

How about true and 'cascade'. I was thinking for divs:
<div id="..." class="..." style="....................." > or
<div id="..." style="....................." class="..." >
the second idea above would give useful css cascade.
I can't think of any use for the first one?

> lyr.setClass('blue_style,box_style',true);
> 
> This would require the user to specify all the values
> (e.g. left,top width,etc) of the layer inside the css
> class.

Can all 4+ browsers take multiple class definitions:
<layer class="blue_style" class="box_style"></layer>
 
> To give the user greater flexibility we could then
> allow them to pass the value 'basic' to the setClass()
> function to have the api only generate the left, top,
> width and heigth values for the style object.

Is this just for dynapi's meaning of inline or for after
page load?

> lyr.setClass('blue_style','basic');
> 
> What do you think?

Great. Is this what you have been thinking of before,
or adding more to the inline style="..." attribute.

-
Kevin

> --
> Raymond Irving
> 
> 
> --- Kevin <ke...@ke...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've heard Raymond may be doing something in the
> > area of
> > dynapi style objects? Sorry if I've got the wrong
> > idea.
> > 
> > Could we have a simple starting point by just
> > passing a class
> > name to the DynLayer constructor or e.g.
> > lyr.setClass('note').
> > 
> > The string 'class="note"' would be inserted in the
> > div/layer/ilayer
> > tag before the big 'style="..."' string so we can
> > pick up a
> > prepared style sheet class from a <style>...</style>
> > section.
> > 
> > -
> > Kevin
> > 
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