Re: [wsrp] [change request #237a] Can a CSS class write the label of abutton?

My key point was that the CSS class
can not set the label outside of setting an image that embedded the label.

Rich Thompson

Alejandro Abdelnur <>

03/27/2003 07:08 PM
        

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a CSS class write the label of a button?

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