[TRINIDAD-89] Server side CSS constants for .css files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.2-core
• Component/s: Skinning
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Leonardo Uribe
• Created: 05/Jul/07 20:50
• Updated: 16/May/08 16:52

Description

Working in my Google Summer of Code, I have found that It would be cool, when you define a css skin file that you can do something like this:

@constants {
greencolor: #97f099;
f90color : #f90;
}

.AFPanelNavigationHorizontal ul li.off a:hover, .AFPanelNavigationHorizontal ul li:hover a, .AFPanelNavigationHorizontal ul li.over a {
background: greencolor;
color: f90color;
}

Like in server side CSS in PHP.

I have created a patch that adds this feature. With this, yo can define local constants variables in a .css file that is used as trinidad skin file.
(If you define a constant in a base skin, the extended skins don't see it). It's a simple but powerful idea.

Suggestion for improvements of this topic are welcome.