Re: [wsrp] [change request #237a] Can a CSS class write the labelof a button?

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A class may contain much more stuff than the label or image, things
like font, font size, spacing, alignment, color, etc, etc. Those things
certainly help achieving common look and feel. IMO these classes are
useful.

What we could do is recommend/mandate consumers to define labels and
icons in the CSS for these classes. Portlets wanting to use the
*portal* defaults can omit those attributes in the generated markup.
Portlets wanting to provide their own values can do it.

Alejandro

Rich Thompson wrote:

 

  In looking back through previous
work, it is clear I was confusing XSLT styling with CSS styling. In
XSLT it is trivial to write the labels for buttons, but appears to not
be doable in CSS. One can use CSS to set a background image, but any
label text of the markup overlays this. Therefore I think either we
require Consumers to set such an image and prohibit Portlets from
writing label text for elements using our control classes (allows the
image to contain the relevant words) or we decide they are not worth
defining in v1 as they are more likely to cause poor UIs than good UIs. 

  

Rich Thompson