[uf-discuss] [citation]: Brian's outstanding issues 1: UID

[Ryan King]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:

> On 9/25/06, Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 25, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:
>>
>> > I like Brian's suggestion to use a type class to denote what  
>> type of
>> > UID it is while avoiding a huge list of new class names.
>> >
>> > <span class="uid"><span class="type">DOI</span>: <a class="value"
>> > href="http://dx.doi.org/stuff">...</a></span>
>> >
>> > It seems like this need for a typed value recurs elsewhere, and  
>> a good
>> > solution could become another useful design pattern for  
>> microformats
>> > in general.
>>
>> Indeed, this looks like what we're already doing in hCard with tel
>> types.
>
> Yep - http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#type_subproperty_values
>
> So suppose I wanted to apply a different style to different types of
> vcard properties - for instance to highlight all 'home' phones. Is
> there a good way to do that in CSS?

Not currently. You'd have to either add a classname in the markup or  
write some javascript that read the contents of the .type and adds a  
classname.

-ryan