set css style with php dom

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i am looking at building my website with the php dom classes. supposing i already have a document with a body, if i add a div to the body like so:

$div = $document->createElement('div');
$document->getElementsByTagName('body')->item(0)->appendChild($div);

is there a way to set a 'style' attribute for this element which has multiple entries? eg one which ends up looking like this:

<div style="top: 40px; left: 60px;"></div>

i know i could do this:

$div->setAttribute('style', 'top: 40px; left: 60px;');

but i want each aspect of the style to be accessible without parsing the value through regex. this is because i would like to access the 40px value easily in other parts of my code.

Gordon · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-23 08:03:11Z

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XML Attributes are used to associate name-value pairs with elements. DOM does not (and cannot) know that you put CSS in there. That is because DOM is for arbitrary XML applications and not just for XHTML. CSS is a different Domain. So you have to parse it manually.

Alternatively, have a look at http://querypath.org. It supports adding and reading style attributes directly.

edited May 23, 2012 at 8:03

answered May 23, 2012 at 7:47

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mulllhausen Over a year ago

ah right. this rules out doing it natively with the php dom classes then. cheers

Andrius Naruševičius · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-23 07:48:12Z

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What about the structure (written by yourself) like this:

$div = new Div();
$div->addStyle('top:', '40px;');
$div->addStyle('left:', '60px;');
print_r($div->Style)//for access of all style elements in case you need to modify them
$document->addElement($div);
//in case you need to modify an already added element, just
$document->Elements[17]; //or something similar

Hopefully you will find something useful :)

answered May 23, 2012 at 7:48

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mulllhausen Over a year ago

that looks like a nice clean way of doing it! i'm still a bit new to the php dom classes - how would i code my Div class to make sure that when i do the $document->addElement($div); it will not crash?

Ali Chegini · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-17 09:19:39Z

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set a class for current element with setAttribute and add custom css to style.css file

answered Feb 17, 2017 at 9:19

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