Jim Ryan wrote:
>How flexible are wildcards in CSS?
>
>
CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it.
You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere.
>suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled
>like so:
>
>.dynamic_rightnav-1 li{border:1px dotted red;}
>.dynamic_rightnav-2 li{border:1px dotted red;}
>...and so forth
>
>can I use the wildcard
>.dynamic_rightnav-* li{border:1px dotted red;}
>
>or is there another way to do this to accomodate elements being created on
>the fly?
>
>
Wrap all the elements in an appropriate semantic container or, barring
that, a div with an id set on it. Like this:
<ul id="dynamic-nav">
[dynamically populated list items from a database go here]
</ul>
Then you can style the dynamically created list items using this selector:
#dynamic-nav li {
[list item styles go here]
}
It seemed like from your example that you don't actually want to make
each list item look different, so this should work fine for you.
Zoe
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Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Services Manager
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu
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