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alternate stylesheets Mike Agnes 08-12-2004
Posted by Mike Agnes on August 12, 2004, 1:37 pm
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 I would like to link to a single XHTML file and at the same time
specify which of several alternative stylesheets should be used for
screen presentation. Is this possible with the current specification?

Example:

XHTML file is document.html

Links would be something like

<a href="document.html" stylesheet="style1.css">Basic</a>
<a href="document.html" stylesheet="style2.css">Fancy</a>

redstart


Posted by Sam Hughes on August 12, 2004, 9:14 pm
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 redstart@redstart.com (Mike Agnes) wrote in

> I would like to link to a single XHTML file and at the same time
> specify which of several alternative stylesheets should be used for
> screen presentation. Is this possible with the current specification?
>
> Example:
>
> XHTML file is document.html
>
> Links would be something like
>
> <a href="document.html" stylesheet="style1.css">Basic</a>
> <a href="document.html" stylesheet="style2.css">Fancy</a>

I hate the Web site that this tutorial is on, but...
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/>


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Posted by Dave Patton on August 12, 2004, 9:19 pm
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redstart@redstart.com (Mike Agnes) wrote in

> I would like to link to a single XHTML file and at the same time
> specify which of several alternative stylesheets should be used for
> screen presentation. Is this possible with the current specification?
>
> Example:
>
> XHTML file is document.html
>
> Links would be something like
>
><a href="document.html" stylesheet="style1.css">Basic</a>
><a href="document.html" stylesheet="style2.css">Fancy</a>

There is no 'stylesheet' attribute of the anchor tag.
You could use server-side scripting:
<a href="document.php?style=Basic">Basic</a>
<a href="document.php?style=Fancy">Fancy</a>
and have document.php generate the HTML output,
perhaps by parsing document.html and adjusting
the stylesheet name.

Or just author document.html with references
to multiple stylesheets, and let the user
choose which one they want.

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Posted by Andy Dingley on August 13, 2004, 1:57 am
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On 12 Aug 2004 12:37:43 -0700, redstart@redstart.com (Mike Agnes)
wrote:

>I would like to link to a single XHTML file and at the same time
>specify which of several alternative stylesheets should be used for
>screen presentation. Is this possible with the current specification?

You can link it, but they won't come.

There's a spec that says how to do this (although it uses the <link>
element, not <a>). Eric Meyer's site (www.meyerweb.com) has some
fairly robust Javascript that can allow switching between them. But
default behaviour for every browser out there is to ignore alternates.

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