[whatwg] Styling <details>

[Tantek Çelik]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 15:21, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> (This isn't the final reply on this thread, but I thought I should give a
> heads-up as to the general direction I am expecting us to go in here.)
>
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>>
>>   We've been experimenting with the styling of the details element,
>> trying to figure out the most sensible way style it.  We have tried to
>> find a solution that behaves the way authors expect, provides for easy
>> restyling by authors and avoiding the troubles associated with magic
>> styles that can't be expressed in CSS.
>>
>> The rendering section of the spec is currently very inadequate and does
>> not describe accurate styles.  Also, the sample XBL binding given in the
>> XBL 2.0 draft is also inadequate for a number of reasons.
>
> I think the long term solution here is some sort of widget definition
> binding language like XBL. I don't think it makes sense to do it purely in
> CSS. Discolsure widgets have all kinds of subtle behaviours like animation
> during disclosure, hover effects on the triangle, etc. Some systems use a
> "More..." or "Details..." button, some use a triangle, some use +/-.
>
> On the short term, I would recommend using the 'icon' property to allow
> authors to override the icon.

Agreed.

FYI: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-ui/#icon

Feel free to follow-up feedback on that to www-style at w3.org.

> I agree that what the spec says is currently inadequate, but without a
> binding language, I don't think it makes sense to spend time trying to
> improve it, since any improvement would be a stop-gap measure.
>
> The same applies to pretty much all the other form controls.

Also agreed.

Tantek

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