Good Point. In all honesty, I'm looking for a practical way to "skin" 2 applications which are identical layout wise. Inherently, I don't want to manage 2 different stylesheets as that will lead to maintenance hell.
The idea was to build a Template implemented in both applications to which I would override/pass to the template colors/background-colors/background-image. Might not be the best approach... On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Chris Colman <chr...@stepaheadsoftware.com>wrote: > That method of css generation you propose would be generating CSS (even > if it were into a separate .css file) with each page render. If you're > dealing with a lot of CSS that probably isn't the most efficient method. > > Generating CSS at render time would mean the browser could not take > advantage of CSS caching - which would be bad in these days of quite > large CSS files. > > You might be better off considering a separate CSS generator that > doesn't generate CSS at 'page render time'. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Eric Hamel [mailto:dantehick...@gmail.com] > >Sent: Saturday, 8 May 2010 5:52 AM > >To: users@wicket.apache.org > >Subject: CSS Templating > > > >All, > > > >I've been exploring the use of TextTemplateHeaderContributor.forCss > method > >to build a CSS template for multiple application. > > > >Take for example: > > > >IModel<Map<String, Object>> model = new > >AbstractReadOnlyModel<Map<String,Object>>(){ > > > >private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; > > > >@Override > >public Map<String, Object> getObject() { > > HashMap<String,Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>(); > >map.put("body-bgcolor", "red"); > > return map; > >} > > > >}; > > add(TextTemplateHeaderContributor.forCss(WelcomePage.class, > >"Template.css", > >model)); > > > >with CSS template: > > > >body{ > > > >background-color: ${body-bgcolor}; > > > >} > > > > > > > >The output works. However, the template is contributing to the header > in > >the > >form of: > > > ><style type="text/css"><!-- body{ background-color: red; }--></style> > > > >which is unacceptable. Is there a way to generate a .css file to be > used by > >the application ? > > > >Thank you > > > >-- > >Sent by Eric Hamel > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > -- Sent by Eric Hamel
