Mapping one CSS to another CSS

deadl0ck

Howdy all,

Is there a way of easily mapping a CSS to another CSS withough manually changing all the defined labels?

Basically, we have a web App with it's own CSS ("CSS A" say) and we are deploying the app to a customer intranet site and they want us to have the same look and feel as their intranet sites, i.e. we must use the definitions in their CSS ("CSS B" say).

Is there anyway I can say in CSS A: import CSS B and where there is label A in CSS A, now use the definition of Lable A in CSS B
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The reason I ask is that if the customer updates their CSS, I want our CSS to pick up these changes.

Now I know I can change the Labels in our CSS, but this issue will arise again and again and I'm looking for the cleanest way to do this.
Any ideas ?

Static

Import two stylesheets, one absolute, one relative?

import /A.css
import http://www.customer.com/B.css

On the live server, A.css could be empty, but where you host internally, A.css is your own css file?

*shrug*

deadl0ck

Actually - I need to be more clear.

I need to map between different Labels

So Label "A" in my App should point to what is defined by Label "B" in the customer CSS.

In this way I could use our Labes in the Core App, but provide a Mapping type document so it picks up the Customers CSS and corresponding Labels

kdouglas

you could probably write a php script which generates and outputs the necessary css depending on which customer it is for etc...

i.e. in your html file do

<link rel="style/css" ref="style.php?customerid=1"/>

then style.php would output the correct style info for that customer, extracted from a database or a flat file

i've never tried using a dynamic page to output css though so no idea if that would even work

as long as you set the content type on the php output then it should work though