Dynamically set CSS styles at run time?

[Andy Mcshane]

Hi all, I have a website that needs to have a simple colour scheme set dynamically when a user logs in. This really only applies to backgrounds and text. Each login has a background colour and text colour stored in a database. What I need to do is dynamically set these values in my stylesheet depending on the user who has logged in, I want to do this without having to have multiple style sheets, is this possible?

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[Tim Knight]

I'm sure after 3 months you've probably thought of this but why not just name your stylesheet .cfm to allow the ColdFusion server to process it.  Then do you query at the top of the sheet outputting the colors where they need to go (don't forget to set your defaults).  It may be better however to create a small stylesheet that you do this in and then just call it from your master CSS sheet.

> Hi all, I have a website that needs to have a simple colour scheme set
> dynamically when a user logs in. This really only applies to
> backgrounds and text. Each login has a background colour and text
> colour stored in a database. What I need to do is dynamically set
> these values in my stylesheet depending on the user who has logged in,
> I want to do this without having to have multiple style sheets, is
> this
possible?

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[Andy Mcshane]

Thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it. I have actually
implemented almost the exact same thing that you have suggested, great minds
think alike! :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Knight [mailto:tim.knight@...]
Sent: 07 September 2005 23:11
To: CSS
Subject: Re: Dynamically set CSS styles at run time?

I'm sure after 3 months you've probably thought of this but why not just
name your stylesheet .cfm to allow the ColdFusion server to process it.
Then do you query at the top of the sheet outputting the colors where they
need to go (don't forget to set your defaults).  It may be better however to
create a small stylesheet that you do this in and then just call it from
your master CSS sheet.

> Hi all, I have a website that needs to have a simple colour scheme set
> dynamically when a user logs in. This really only applies to
> backgrounds and text. Each login has a background colour and text
> colour stored in a database. What I need to do is dynamically set
> these values in my stylesheet depending on the user who has logged in,
> I want to do this without having to have multiple style sheets, is
> this
possible?



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