Hello all,


I'd like to know if it's ok to use vbscript within a css page?
I'm thinking about defining certain variables at the beginning of the style sheet so that it's easy to change between colors (or load the colors from a database so each user can have their own custom colors). I know it's possible and it works but does it go against the w3c standard?

Thanks.

Works in what? You guessed right, VBScript isn't a w3c standard. It's a Microsoft technology. Don't know what browsers except IE support it, probably none.

The best plan is to generate the css files (either on the fly, or "offline") using a preprocessor, such as PHP. Then you can exploit the bits of CSS that work, without being stuck with its half-baked programmability. It's a much sounder idea anyway to do this sort of thing on the server, because you don't have to worry about "support" on someone else's computer system.

Here's a sample page using a CSS stylesheet built on the fly:

http://imaginatorium.org/ecco/

Never mind what it's all about, just click on a colour you fancy from the palette...

I don't think you can put MSIE's client-side VBscript code embedded in a style sheet (as opposed to in a HTML document). MSIE's "dynamic properties" can be used inside style sheets, but I don't think they let you set variables.

But you can let variables in a javascript (outside the style sheet) change CSS in several ways, this works more or less in modern browsers. See http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/domcss and linked pages.


Something like this? http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/csscolor/ see also http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/


Not necessarily (as long as it's not written directly in the style sheet), but in general I don't think users bother to use style switchers.

I immodestly think mine's better.

I occasionally use them on forum sites, where the default theme is especially annoying. If I visit the site regularly, then I go to the trouble to choose my favorite of the themes they offer. But otherwise, no.

I don't use font-size widgets either. I just set my default font and my minimum font, and that's all I need.