Assigning class attribute to links?

andreas · 2004-10-17 17:56:38

I’d like to add a class attribute to links but none of my attempt at syntax worked.

Is there no way to make textile do that?

hafnius · 2004-10-17 20:10:48

Hmmm scaring perspective.

after a bit of investigating i found this:
<code>

‘(class)Link’:url

‘(class#id)Link’:url

</code>

(substitute ‘ with “ in the above)

The above syntax will not work on Textile

but it will work on textilephp for txp which is a php port of a perl thinghy.

I found the above syntax on this Movable type user guide to Textile

I cant belive though that there is no way to style links with class or id’s in Textile. But cant get it to work.
/Hafnius

Last edited by hafnius (2004-10-17 20:13:36)

andreas · 2004-10-17 20:36:28

Thanks. If this is indeed not included in Textile I will put it into feature requests. I consider it quite basic and very useful.

andreas · 2005-11-17 17:11:33

Is there a chance that this is going to be added anytime soon?

Destry · 2005-11-21 08:55:36

I know you understand this, andreas, but I’ll just point it out for others who might not understand the finer control you’re ultimately trying to achieve.

The class would provide finer control, with perhaps the real benefit of requiring fewer characters in the CSS, and that’s good; but one can pretty much style various links types individually already, at least to the parent element level anyway, and that is really all one needs if you are concerned with usability issues (that’s not to suggest having classes will make people ignore usability).

For example, let’s say you have links in a main content area div <code>id=“mca”</code> (your regular article body links), and you have a column box with three contained boxes; <code>id=“top”</code>, <code>id=“middle”</code>, <code>id=“bottom”</code> where you want links to be different in each box position. You can give all four locations unique link styling by using the parent box IDs:

#mca a:link, #mca a:visited {}
#mca a:hover {}

#top a:link, #top a:visited {}
#top a:hover {}

#middle a:link, #middle a:visited {}
#middle a:hover {}

#bottom a:link, #bottom a:visited {}
#bottom a:hover {}

Having classes would only enhance things further, as I see it, by allowing you to create different link styling within the same parent element, and that’s where I would question whether doing so is a good usability practice or not.

Last edited by Destry (2005-11-21 08:59:24)

eric2007 · 2006-06-09 13:35:16

You need the link class attribute to make CSS rollovers, i.e., <a href=“link” class=“rollover”>.

I want to make my next article and previous article links CSS rollovers, but <txp:link_to_prev(/next)> does not support the class attribute, nor can you get a raw link url by using <txp:link_to_prev /> (as you can when you use <txp:link_to_home />).

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#1 2004-10-17 17:56:38

Assigning class attribute to links?

#2 2004-10-17 20:10:48

Re: Assigning class attribute to links?

#3 2004-10-17 20:36:28

Re: Assigning class attribute to links?

#4 2005-11-17 17:11:33

Re: Assigning class attribute to links?

#5 2005-11-21 08:55:36

Re: Assigning class attribute to links?

#6 2006-06-09 13:35:16

Re: Assigning class attribute to links?

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