CSS command to change the IMAGE of an INPUT tag

[Laphan]

Hi All

Just to confirm, is it true that you can't change the image of an <INPUT
TYPE="IMAGE".... from within a CSS styelsheet?

I know the standard command is SRC="....", but there doesn't seem to be a
command in CSS that manipulates this value.

Any get arounds?

Thanks

Laphan

[ironcorona]

Laphan wrote:

Hi All

Just to confirm, is it true that you can't change the image of an <INPUT
TYPE="IMAGE".... from within a CSS styelsheet?

I know the standard command is SRC="....", but there doesn't seem to be a
command in CSS that manipulates this value.

Any get arounds?

Why is it necessary to find a CSS way of finding the image?

To answer your question: no. There's no way of selecting an image in
that way in CSS. The closest you can do is to select the background
image but that doesn't apply here.

Since the image on a button is structural rather than design it's
perfectly acceptable to use HTML here.

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[David Cary Hart]

On Sun, 7 May 2006 19:10:25 +0100
"Laphan" <in**@SpamMeNot.co.uk> opined:

Hi All

Just to confirm, is it true that you can't change the image of an
<INPUT TYPE="IMAGE".... from within a CSS styelsheet?

I know the standard command is SRC="....", but there doesn't seem
to be a command in CSS that manipulates this value.

No but what are you trying to accomplish?

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[Laphan]

I allow the user of my web site/application to change the style of the web
site via an external stylesheet.

The extended work in making every button a graphic was becoming too much,
they create skins so for each skin they were having to create 20 or so
buttons, so I changed the buttons to standard HTML Inputs, which obviously
allowed them to change the border and bg colours of these buttons en masse,
but now a number of my users would like the option to use graphic or html
buttons.

To keep a tight rein on this I was looking to use HTML input buttons still,
but they could specify a SRC for the Input in the stylesheet if they wanted
a graphical button.

It would just make a perfect solution, but it looks like it can't happen.

Thanks anyway.

Rgds Laphan

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On Sun, 7 May 2006 19:10:25 +0100
"Laphan" <in**@SpamMeNot.co.uk> opined:

Hi All

Just to confirm, is it true that you can't change the image of an
<INPUT TYPE="IMAGE".... from within a CSS styelsheet?

I know the standard command is SRC="....", but there doesn't seem
to be a command in CSS that manipulates this value.

No but what are you trying to accomplish?

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[phil-news-nospam]

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets ironcorona <ir*********@gmail.com> wrote:

| Why is it necessary to find a CSS way of finding the image?

Maybe the choice of which image is just a matter of style.

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[phil-news-nospam]

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets Laphan <in**@spammenot.co.uk> wrote:

| I allow the user of my web site/application to change the style of the web
| site via an external stylesheet.
|
| The extended work in making every button a graphic was becoming too much,
| they create skins so for each skin they were having to create 20 or so
| buttons, so I changed the buttons to standard HTML Inputs, which obviously
| allowed them to change the border and bg colours of these buttons en masse,
| but now a number of my users would like the option to use graphic or html
| buttons.
|
| To keep a tight rein on this I was looking to use HTML input buttons still,
| but they could specify a SRC for the Input in the stylesheet if they wanted
| a graphical button.
|
| It would just make a perfect solution, but it looks like it can't happen.

Would be nice if CSS had a generic way to override any attribute on a
selected element in HTML.

Maybe something like:

img#menu_top_left {
attribute["src"]: url(whatever);
}

But in reality, you'll probably have to dynamically output one of two
different classes of page for the variations on how to decorate them.

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