NAME

CSS::Tiny::Style - Object oriented interface to CSS stylesheets

VERSION

This document describes CSS::Tiny::Style version 0.0.3

SYNOPSIS

    #------------------------------------------------------
    # simple example
    #------------------------------------------------------

    use CSS::Tiny;
    use CSS::Tiny::Style;
    use HTML::Element; 

    $el = HTML::Element->new('p');
    $el->attr('class', 'myclass');

    $cts = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('p.myclass')
    $cts->match($el) # return true

    #------------------------------------------------------
    # more interesting example
    #------------------------------------------------------
    # inline a stylesheet onto the single HTML elements
    #------------------------------------------------------

    use HTML::TreeBuilder;


    my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
    $tree->parse_file('filename.html');

    $css = CSS::Tiny->read( 'stylesheet.css' );

    for my $el ($tree->descendants) {
	for my $st ($css->styles) {
	    if ($st->match($el)) {
		$st->add_style($el);
	    }
	}
    }
    print $tree->as_HTML;
  
  

DESCRIPTION

INTERFACE

Constructor

new

my $selector_string = 'div.index li.new';
my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new($selector_string);

Returns a new CSS::Tiny::Style object

Using with CSS::Tiny

CSS::Tiny::Styles provides two additional methods to CSS::Tiny, making it possible to generate CSS::Tiny::Styles on the fly by parsing a stylesheet like this:

$css = CSS::Tiny->read( 'stylesheet.css' );

CSS::Tiny->styles

@styles = CSS::Tiny->styles

Returns a list of CSS::Tiny::Style objects made up of all the style definitions in CSS::Tiny

CSS::Tiny->selectors

@selectors = CSS::Tiny->selectors

Returns a list of selector strings in the CSS::Tiny object

Selectors

tag

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('pre');
print $style->tag; # prints "pre"

Returns the tag part of the selector

id

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('li#leftmenu');
print $style->id; # prints "leftmenu"

Returns the id part of the selector

class

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('p.big');
print $style->class; # prints "big"

Returns the class part of the selector

selector

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('div.sidebar p.new');
print $style->selector; # prints "div.sidebar p.new"

Returns the selector string

selector_array

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('div.main div.sidebar > p.new');
@sel_arr = $style->selector_array;
print join "::" @sel_arr;
# prints 

Returns an array of element tags (i.e: p.important) alternated with strings derived from relative selectors (i.e.: the ">" or "+" or " " between element tags.

Relative selectors are transformed as follows:

'+' becomes 'left'

'>' becomes 'parent'

' ' becomes 'lineage'

selarr

selarr is an alias for selector_array

Specificity

specificity

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('h1.menu li.myclass');
print $style->specificity # prints 22

Returns the selector's specificity as described in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity. A base 100 is used.

count_tags

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('h1.menu li.myclass #foo');
print $style->count_tags # prints 2

Return the number of tags in the selector

count_ids

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('h1#bar li.myclass #foo');
print $style->count_ids # prints 2

Return the number of ids in the selector

count_attributes

my $style = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('h1.menu li #foo');
print $style->count_attributes # prints 1

Return the number of attributes in the selector

Matching and inlining

match

$el = HTML::Element->new('p');
$el->attr('class', 'myclass');

$cts = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('p.myclass')
$cts->match($el) # return true

Returns true if the style selector matches on the HTML::Element object, taking into account all its relatives (siblings, ancestors, parent).

element_match

$el = HTML::Element->new('p');
$el->attr('class', 'myclass');

$cts = CSS::Tiny::Style->new('p.myclass')
$cts->element_match($el) # return true

Returns true if the style selector matches on the HTML::Element object without taking into account the ancestors.

add_to

Inlines the style definition into the element.

DEPENDENCIES

CSS::Tiny
HTML::Element

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS

No bugs have yet been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-css-tiny-style@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

LIMITATIONS

Attribute selectors

Does not handle E[foo] type selectors

Repeated properties

Allows duplicated setting of the same property in a inline style definition

Inheritance

Does not handle inherited properties

AUTHOR

Simone Cesano <scesano@cpan.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Simone Cesano <scesano@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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