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Posted by Andy Dingley on 02/16/07 13:34
On 16 Feb, 12:16, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> > To quote the OP: "I can't modify because is automatically added by the
> > script that is generating the page, "
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> That sounds like "I don't know how to" rather than "I can", in reality.
Isn't that one of the reasons behind CSS ?
A competent HTML + CSS author can thus re-work the presentation of a
page without needing to change a server-side scripting language they
might not be competent with. This is a good thing.
> Weird things are
> possible in this weird world, but your guess is just a shot in the dark.
Outside of the ivory log-cabins of Academia, this is what we often
find ourselves doing.
If one embeds a <style> element into the <body> of a HTML page it
"works" and thus allows you to control CSS selectors based on :hover
(obviously these can't be done through a style attribute). It's not
valid, and I've no idea if it works for anything other than one
version of IE I demonstrated it with. As a result though, I was able
to control link presentation for a snippet of HTML that was embedded
on one of MSN's pages from within my own RSS feed. -- And to get this
sorted within an hour. No way would MSN allow me to modify their pages
or their stylesheets nor do I think they were even capable of doing
this in under glacial time. _That_ is the sort of hack that people in
business do find necessary on a regular basis, so I can certainly
understand the OP's situation in general, if not their specific case.
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