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Started by NickHighIQ Mar 12, 2008 at 12:29 AM 3 replies 1k views

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Mar 12, 2008 at 12:29 AM

Is there any way to create custom pseudo-classes? Or is there a better way of doing what I want to do? I'm a total newbie to CSS. I am creating custom controls, and these custom controls have custom width and style properties. Basically, I want a 'button' class from which 'stylishButton' inherits. I then want to be able to slap a pseudo-class (that's what I think I want to do) on it to say whether it is 'large', 'medium' or 'small'. These custom width and style properties are just enums which I want to set the meaningful values of in the CSS file. Are custom pseudo-classes what I actually want to do, or something else? [Edited by - NickHighIQ on March 12, 2008 5:00:06 AM]

Kylotan

Mar 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM

No, you just want extra classes. Put the common stuff in 'stylishButton', put the size stuff in 3 other classes, and give the object both classes in your HTML.

Or, just have 3 classes, and specify the non-size styles together in one block, and the sizes individually.

Pseudo-classes are for different contextual states of a single class, rather than a way to distinguish between similar things that you think should be one class but could just as easily be several.