Have you looked at Compass/SCSS? That introduces variables/parameterization/mixins into a higher level CSS language that then generates CSS that browsers understand. I've used it a bit and it's quite powerful and you end up writing heaps less css even if you're only managing the CSS for a single site.
http://compass-style.org Regards, Chris Colman http://pagebloom.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Eric Hamel [mailto:dantehick...@gmail.com] >Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 10:17 PM >To: users@wicket.apache.org >Subject: Re: CSS Templating > >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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
