greatness; )

On May 23, 1:03 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> open firebug, inspect something, open the options panel of the "Style"
> tab (in the right half) and uncheck "Expand Shorthand Properties"
>
> On May 23, 10:29 am, Faminor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Yes, but actually that is what css "shortcut" was invented for in the
> > first place, not to keep all the bulky code I pasted below and to be
> > able to easily change the values.
>
> > What firebug does to the border property is unfortunately of no help,
> > as you argue. Yep, if you wish to edit one side of the element
> > border's width, you can do it in firebug by changing one of those
> > properties. But then, if you wish to play via firebug with the overall
> > border, it becomes really time consuming, as you have to go through
> > the whole bulk. And this makes you go back to your source file to do
> > any tweaks, which, unfortunately, undermines the necessity of firebug.
>
> > I think earlier versions of firebug did not break down the border
> > property in this way. Personally, I liked that better ;)
>
> > On May 23, 9:12 am, "Brian L. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On 5/22/10 1:30 PM, Faminor wrote:
>
> > > > Good day,
>
> > > > May I ask why is it so that a style simple as (e.g.):
>
> > > > .element {
> > > >    border:1px solid #E6E6E6;
> > > > }
>
> > > > explodes in the firebug css style tab into:
>
> > > > .element {
> > > > border-bottom-color:#E6E6E6;
> > > > border-bottom-style:solid;
> > > > border-bottom-width:1px;
> > > > border-left-color-ltr-source:physical;
> > > > border-left-color-rtl-source:physical;
> > > > border-left-color-value:#E6E6E6;
> > > > border-left-style-ltr-source:physical;
> > > > border-left-style-rtl-source:physical;
> > > > border-left-style-value:solid;
> > > > border-left-width-ltr-source:physical;
> > > > border-left-width-rtl-source:physical;
> > > > border-left-width-value:1px;
> > > > border-right-color-ltr-source:physical;
> > > > border-right-color-rtl-source:physical;
> > > > border-right-color-value:#E6E6E6;
> > > > border-right-style-ltr-source:physical;
> > > > border-right-style-rtl-source:physical;
> > > > border-right-style-value:solid;
> > > > border-right-width-ltr-source:physical;
> > > > border-right-width-rtl-source:physical;
> > > > border-right-width-value:1px;
> > > > border-top-color:#E6E6E6;
> > > > border-top-style:solid;
> > > > border-top-width:1px;
> > > > }
>
> > > border is a shorthand property for some other properties, which are in
> > > turn shorthand properties for other properties. At the bottom, you get
> > > the above real properties (although I don't recognized the ones with
> > > value physical, but I'm certainly not a CSS expert). If Firebug didn't
> > > expand the shorthand properties, there'd be no way to modify the
> > > individual properties, and I think it's a useful indicator of what
> > > you're really doing with the border property.
>
> > > Brian
>
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