[thelist] How to style a widget?

Jay Turley jayturley at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 20:19:30 CDT 2009


Thanks, Will. I thought of the JS right after I sent the email, but I wasn't
aware I could drop a style block in there. Muchly appreciated.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Will <willthemoor at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could use JS to insert the CSS as well. Sorta gross but it works.
>
> Style tags inserted in the body of the doc will work too. If you're
> doing it with JS, the doc will still validate.
>
> Will
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jay Turley<jayturley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all-
> >
> > Creating a javascript widget to be placed on the sites of clients of a
> > client, and I am wondering what is the best way to handle styling the
> > widget.
> >
> > The widget is loaded using the following code:
> >
> >  <script type="text/javascript">
> >     document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='[widget_url]'
> > type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
> >  </script>
> >
> > As far as I know, <style> and <link> tags must appear in the <head>
> section.
> >
> > This pretty much means that either:
> >
> > (1) All styling must be inline, or
> >
> > (2) I must ask for users of the widget to add the CSS using <style> or
> > <link> - making it more difficult to place.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > -Jay
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