Theme Constants?

[Teresa Church]

Is there such a thing as defining a constant (or a variable) for a
theme? For example, storing a color code and then using it in 4 or 5
places, so to change the color I only have to edit one line?

TIA

[T. Church]

Yes, I am fairly familiar with CSS, and am aware that there is no way
to have variables or constants in a CSS.

For example, I know this will not work:

#define HIGHLIGHT = #FFFFFF

a.navigation:ho ver {
color: HIGHLIGHT;
}

td.sidebar {
border-color: HIGHLIGHT;
}

Note that these are two different elements and two different classes.
BUT if I wanted to change the highlight, I could change it in *1 place
only*.

There are various resources available on Google that say this exact
scenario IS NOT POSSIBLE.

My question remains ... *** Is there any way to do this via ASP.NET
themes? ***

On Jun 19, 2:16 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon[ nospam ]Paal @ everywhere
dot comwrote:

there's unlimited resources for css tutorials and examples via google.

a simple css class looks like :

.sidebar {
font-size:11px;
margin-top:2px

}applied it looks like:<div class="sidebar" >sidebar stuff here</div>
"T. Church" <tlchu...@gmail .comwrote in messagenews:11* *************** *****@w5g2000hs g.googlegroups. com...

Either I'm being obtuse or I'm not explaining myself correctly ...
hopefully it's the former.

Can you give an example of what my CSS will look like so for each
color on my palette, I only set it once and can change it easily?

On Jun 19, 1:26 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon[ nospam ]Paal @ everywhere
dot comwrote:

Sounds like you are referring to a css class

define the class and it is applied to the control whenever.

Change the class color and it is reflected everywhere it is used.

>Is there such a thing as defining a constant (or a variable) for a
theme? For example, storing a color code and then using it in 4 or 5
places, so to change the color I only have to edit one line?
TIA

[George Ter-Saakov]

Everything is possible. Depends how much money you have.

Your CSS file can be dynamicly created with .NET code.
Simply have in your HTML files instead of
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="my.css">
have it like
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="my.aspx">
And your my.aspx can load my.css file and perfom the substitution.
so my.css has
a.navigation:ho ver {
color: @HIGHLIGHT@;
}

td.sidebar {
border-color: @HIGHLIGHT@;
}
and my.aspx will have folowing code
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("m y.css"))
{
strinf s = sr.ReadToEnd();
s.Replace("@HIG HLIGHT@", "#FFFFFF");
}

George

"T. Church" <tl******@gmail .comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ q75g2000hsh.goo glegroups.com.. .

Yes, I am fairly familiar with CSS, and am aware that there is no way
to have variables or constants in a CSS.

For example, I know this will not work:

#define HIGHLIGHT = #FFFFFF

a.navigation:ho ver {
color: HIGHLIGHT;
}

td.sidebar {
border-color: HIGHLIGHT;
}

Note that these are two different elements and two different classes.
BUT if I wanted to change the highlight, I could change it in *1 place
only*.

There are various resources available on Google that say this exact
scenario IS NOT POSSIBLE.

My question remains ... *** Is there any way to do this via ASP.NET
themes? ***

On Jun 19, 2:16 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon[ nospam ]Paal @ everywhere
dot comwrote:

>there's unlimited resources for css tutorials and examples via google.

a simple css class looks like :

.sidebar {
font-size:11px;
margin-top:2px

}applied it looks like:<div class="sidebar" >sidebar stuff here</div>
"T. Church" <tlchu...@gmail .comwrote in
messagenews:11 *************** ******@w5g2000h sg.googlegroups .com...

Either I'm being obtuse or I'm not explaining myself correctly ...
hopefully it's the former.

Can you give an example of what my CSS will look like so for each
color on my palette, I only set it once and can change it easily?

On Jun 19, 1:26 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon[ nospam ]Paal @ everywhere
dot comwrote:
Sounds like you are referring to a css class

>define the class and it is applied to the control whenever.

>Change the class color and it is reflected everywhere it is used.

>>Is there such a thing as defining a constant (or a variable)
for a
theme? For example, storing a color code and then using it in 4
or 5
places, so to change the color I only have to edit one line?
TIA

[Jon Paal [MSMD]]

perhaps save it as an asp file to have dynamic content.
<% HIGHLIGHT = "#FFFFFF" %>

a.navigation:ho ver {
color: <%= HIGHLIGHT %>;
}

Not sure how this would translate to ASP.net themes.

"T. Church" <tl******@gmail .comwrote in message news:11******** **************@ q75g2000hsh.goo glegroups.com.. .

Yes, I am fairly familiar with CSS, and am aware that there is no way
to have variables or constants in a CSS.

For example, I know this will not work:

#define HIGHLIGHT = #FFFFFF

a.navigation:ho ver {
color: HIGHLIGHT;
}

td.sidebar {
border-color: HIGHLIGHT;
}

Note that these are two different elements and two different classes.
BUT if I wanted to change the highlight, I could change it in *1 place
only*.

There are various resources available on Google that say this exact
scenario IS NOT POSSIBLE.

My question remains ... *** Is there any way to do this via ASP.NET
themes? ***

On Jun 19, 2:16 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon[ nospam ]Paal @ everywhere
dot comwrote:

>there's unlimited resources for css tutorials and examples via google.

a simple css class looks like :

.sidebar {
font-size:11px;
margin-top:2px

}applied it looks like:<div class="sidebar" >sidebar stuff here</div>
"T. Church" <tlchu...@gmail .comwrote in messagenews:11* *************** *****@w5g2000hs g.googlegroups. com...

Either I'm being obtuse or I'm not explaining myself correctly ...
hopefully it's the former.

Can you give an example of what my CSS will look like so for each
color on my palette, I only set it once and can change it easily?

On Jun 19, 1:26 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon[ nospam ]Paal @ everywhere
dot comwrote:
Sounds like you are referring to a css class

>define the class and it is applied to the control whenever.

>Change the class color and it is reflected everywhere it is used.

>>Is there such a thing as defining a constant (or a variable) for a
theme? For example, storing a color code and then using it in 4 or 5
places, so to change the color I only have to edit one line?
TIA