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Gavin · 10-05-2001 1:35pm #1

Howdy,
small question that I was wondering if yee could help me with. I have a list of names and I want to create a CSS such that whenever there is an occurence of one of these names in the webpage, the font changes, or color or whatever.

Any ideas ? If this works.. it will save me time playing with perl.

Cheers,
Gav

smoke.me.a.kipper · 10-05-2001 1:47pm

i'd be interested in this if a certain word say 'boards' was automatically made into a link to boards.ie or something like that.

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dahamsta · 10-05-2001 2:05pm

To get CSS to work, you have to assign elements a classname or id. Or a HTML tag obviously. I guess it might be possible to do what you suggest with the newer versions of JavaScript that support regular expressions, but I think the script would be fairly complex, as you would need to loop through all the elements on the page. I think a simpler approach would be to do it on the server side, using a regex to scan for the keyword and wrap it in a class. Sorry, best I can do off the top of my head.

Bard · 10-05-2001 11:47pm

As far as I'm aware, the short and simple answer is ... No, you cannot change the appearance of every instance of a word with CSS... at least not without explicitly assigning a 'class' to each instance.

Bard

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Gambler · 11-05-2001 5:37pm

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
As far as I'm aware, the short and simple answer is ... No, you cannot change the appearance of every instance of a word with CSS... at least not without explicitly assigning a 'class' to each instance.

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What He Said

You could get a script (ASP\PHP\CGI) to replace a word in a html page with a CSS Class code if you wanted and use the script as a kinda wrapper. (People would browse http://www.mysexydomain.com/recode.asp?page=page2convert.html

Basically it would be easier to write the whole site in a script and put a server side include with the Script to find the words and replace them with the code you want...

Does any-one follow me, because I don't think I do...

[CrimsonGhost] · 11-05-2001 9:18pm

Like people said it isn't really possible unless you wrap each word you want styly changed for in its own tags assuming you do that then the following would work

replace all 'myspecialword' with
<MYSPECIALWORD>myspecialword</MYSPECIALWORD>
in your html

and then with your css file something like

<style type="text/css">

</style>

Just in a plain text file and link it into your html by putting something like the following inside your <HEAD> tags.
<LINK REL=STYLESHEET TYPE=text/css HREF="mySpecialStyles.css">

Hope that helps.

Robbie Burke · 11-05-2001 11:53pm

If you give me the address of your site, and what words etc etc you need changing and what style you want them changed to I could probably whiop up a CGI script complete with admin center, no exact time limit but ~1 week, if that sounds good email me..

syinide@iol.ie

[This message has been edited by Robbie Burke (edited 11-05-2001).]

Bludgeon · 12-05-2001 1:02am

i have a load of css code if u want it dood ... ill send it 3 ya or sumfin .. icq / e-mail me if u wan it

mneylon · 21-05-2001 3:31am

You might be able to manage it using XML, but it sounds like a lot of hardwork....
Suppose it depends on how many instances of the word there are.

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