style based on tag content

That's the best solution so far. I'll have to come up with a set of
behaviors for our site.

Thank you!

Martin Eyles wrote:

The closest I can think of is attribute selectors.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector....bute-selectors

[att=val]
Match when the element's "att" attribute value is exactly "val".

However I don't think you can have content as the att.

Just to confirm: you can't. An element's content isn't an attribute.

jpolaski (AT) rgs (DOT) uci.edu wrote:

That's the best solution so far. I'll have to come up with a set of
behaviors for our site.

Thank you!

You are welcome. I have some set of copyright free twinpairs (XBL/HTC)
for some most common task. Ask if you need.

VK wrote:

jpolaski (AT) rgs (DOT) uci.edu wrote:
I'd like to change the color of text in a table data field based on the
content...

For example, I'd like all <td>pos</td> to show the "pos" in red. All
td>pending</td> should show as the normal black. I don't really want
to have to add a class or a style, but that's how I've been doing it so
far...

I seem to remember that this is possible, I just can't remember the
syntax right now and I'm not having any luck with google...

Thanks in advance,

Use behaviors
IE 5.5 or higher
Firefox 1.0 or higher
Camino 1.0 or higher
any other modern Gecko based browser
Netscape 8.0 or higher

[demo snipped]

Seems like an awful lot of work to use a behavior for this. Wouldn't it
be easier to take the working part of it and stick it in a script?

function adjustTable(table)
{
var tds = table.getElementsByTagName("td");
var iTD;
for (iTD = 0; iTD < tds.length; iTD++)
{
switch ...

}
}

[in onload handler]
adjustTable(document.getElementById("myTable"));

If the scope should be restricted to particular columns, then you
approach of going methodically through the TBODY and then TRs makes sense.

Harlan Messinger wrote:

Use behaviors
IE 5.5 or higher
Firefox 1.0 or higher
Camino 1.0 or higher
any other modern Gecko based browser
Netscape 8.0 or higher

[demo snipped]

Seems like an awful lot of work to use a behavior for this. Wouldn't it
be easier to take the working part of it and stick it in a script?

function adjustTable(table)
{
var tds = table.getElementsByTagName("td");
var iTD;
for (iTD = 0; iTD < tds.length; iTD++)
{
switch ...

}
}

In this particular case it is replaceable by <script>, because we do
not have to augment elements by new properties/methods, do not insert
anonymous content, do not require refactored events for bounds elements
etc.

In the "Sticky Notes" sample
<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XBL:XBL_1.0_Reference#Example_-_Sticky_Notes>

we have a HTML 4.01 Strict valid document with notes decorated with SVG
(Gecko) / VML (IE) graphics being part of the document tree (and more).

Also "a lot of work" for who? ;-) Any solution requires some initial
work, sometimes a lot of work - all eventually expressed in one line
<script src="myscript.js"></script>.
The question is how easy is to raise the solution over and over again
without adjusting it for new context every time. In this aspect to have
everything in one .css sheet with two lines added:
table {
....
-moz-binding: url(zebra.xml#default);
behavior: url(zebra.htc);
}
doesn't need a lot of work.

If the scope should be restricted to particular columns, then you
approach of going methodically through the TBODY and then TRs makes sense.

Well... Only to you alone: a dark secret of XBL :-) In the current
Gecko implementation in tables one can attach bindings only to the
table element itself, not to tr or td (bug 83830). IE behavior doesn't
have this limitation. Without this bug I would attach bindings right to
rows which has much more sense - and would let me stay out of any
coding at all.

No, it doesn't work. Yes, that's what I was originally thinking of.

As things stand now, there is no easy solution.

Running Apple programs on a PC doesn't work, even if you were
thinkig of using an emulator

jpolaski (AT) rgs (DOT) uci.edu wrote:
No, it doesn't work. Yes, that's what I was originally thinking of.

As things stand now, there is no easy solution.


Is your car running? Or maybe you could take public transportation?
Otherwise, how are you going to get to work?

jpolaski (AT) rgs (DOT) uci.edu wrote:
No, it doesn't work. Yes, that's what I was originally thinking of.

As things stand now, there is no easy solution.


Such a radical change is likely to cause problems. Maybe we should
consider a more measured approach.

jpolaski (AT) rgs (DOT) uci.edu wrote:
No, it doesn't work. Yes, that's what I was originally thinking of.

As things stand now, there is no easy solution.

Sorry - I'm trying...