Combining Styles

[Harag]

Hi All

If I had the following 3 style in a CSS file
<style>
.bordered {border: red thin soldid;}
.warning {background-color: #900;}
.box {padding: 5%; text-align:justify;}
</style>
Then in my html page I can do somthing like this:
<div class="box warning bordered">This is a warning.</div>

is there a way to "combined" the 3 styles into a 4th one eg:
<style>
.mywarning {box; warning; bordered}
</style>

so I can do things like this:
<div class="mywarning">This is a warning.</div>

and also still use the 3 original styles like:
<div class="bordered">a border around me</div>
Thanks for any help/tips

Al.

[Stan Brown]

In article <vc********************************@4ax.com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Harag
<ha***@softGETRIDOFCAPLETTERShome.net> wrote:

is there a way to "combined" the 3 styles into a 4th one eg:
<style>
.mywarning {box; warning; bordered}
</style>

No. There is no way in plain CSS to make a new class include the
properties of existing classes. Some sort of preprocessor could
probably do the job.

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[Christoph Paeper]

*Harag* <ha***@softGETRIDOFCAPLETTERShome.net>:

.bordered {border: red thin soldid;}
.warning {background-color: #900;}
.box {padding: 5%; text-align:justify;}

is there a way to "combined" the 3 styles into a 4th one

.mywarning, .bordered {border: red thin soldid;}
.mywarning, .warning {background-color: #900;}
.mywarning, .box {padding: 5%; text-align:justify;}

Virtually every CSS tutorial would have told you that in its "Selectors"
chapter.

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[Stan Brown]

In article <bo**********@ariadne.rz.tu-clausthal.de> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Christoph Paeper
<cr***********@gmx.net> wrote:

.mywarning, .bordered {border: red thin soldid;}

Shouldn't that be "sordid"? :-)

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
2.1 changes: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[Harag]

I'm dont think you quite understand what I was after.

I don't want to redefine "bordered, warning & Box" I just want to use
them in one class.

if I have in one css fiile "FX.css"
..Bordered {border: red thin solid;}
..bgCCC {background-color: #CCC;}
..bg00C {background-color: #00C;}
..bg0C0 {background-color: #0C0;}
..bgC00 {background-color: #C00;}
..Box {padding: 5%; text-align:justify;}

I want to beable to define things like
..Warning {Bordered; bgC00; Box;)
..Note {bg00C; Box}

then in my html i can do:
<div class="Warning">this is a warning</div>

instead of:
<div class="Box Bordered bgC00">this is a warning</div>

if I want to change the background color of warnings throughout the
page then I can just edit the ".Warning {Bordered, bgC00, Box)" and
change it to ".Warning {Bordered, bgCCC, Box)" rather than edit every
DIV on the page where the warning is used.

Hope this is made clearer.

Al.
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 02:26:41 +0100, Christoph Paeper
<cr***********@gmx.net> wrote:

*Harag* <ha***@softGETRIDOFCAPLETTERShome.net>:

.bordered {border: red thin soldid;}
.warning {background-color: #900;}
.box {padding: 5%; text-align:justify;}

is there a way to "combined" the 3 styles into a 4th one

.mywarning, .bordered {border: red thin soldid;}
.mywarning, .warning {background-color: #900;}
.mywarning, .box {padding: 5%; text-align:justify;}

Virtually every CSS tutorial would have told you that in its "Selectors"
chapter.

[Lauri Raittila]

In article Harag wrote:

I'm dont think you quite understand what I was after.

I don't want to redefine "bordered, warning & Box" I just want to use
them in one class.

if I have in one css fiile "FX.css"
.Bordered {border: red thin solid;}
.bgCCC {background-color: #CCC;}
.bg00C {background-color: #00C;}
.bg0C0 {background-color: #0C0;}
.bgC00 {background-color: #C00;}
.Box {padding: 5%; text-align:justify;}

I want to beable to define things like
.Warning {Bordered; bgC00; Box;)
.Note {bg00C; Box}
That is not possible using CSS.
then in my html i can do:
<div class="Warning">this is a warning</div>

instead of:
<div class="Box Bordered bgC00">this is a warning</div>

if I want to change the background color of warnings throughout the
page then I can just edit the ".Warning {Bordered, bgC00, Box)" and
change it to ".Warning {Bordered, bgCCC, Box)" rather than edit every
DIV on the page where the warning is used.

You might want to use some server side language.

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[Christoph Paeper]

*Harag* <ha***@softGETRIDOFCAPLETTERShome.net>:

I'm dont think you quite understand what I was after.
Be assured I did.
I don't want to redefine "bordered, warning & Box" I just want to use
them in one class.

Because that is not possible the way you want it, I showed you the way it is
possible with CSS. The result is virtually the same.

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