Are you familiar with the metadata plugin? Rather than putting the custom properties in your stylesheet, you put it in the value of the class attribute:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/metadata Might be worth a look. - Richard On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Thommo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know I can get the CSS value for a standard CSS properties > For instance $('#myelement').css('Width") > > But I want to create my own CSS properties > eg: (Css Entry) > a1FormDate > { > a1Type:Date > a1Required:True > } > > The problem is that if I try and retrieve this value by the above > methods I get a null value from Firefox and Opera. IE seems to work OK > > It would be good if I could get CSS value without knowing class. The > only way I have seen to so this is outside of jquery by creating an > array and manually searching it via document.stylesheets DOM elements. > > I am trying to encapsulate application design so that is entirely > editable by HTML and stylesheets. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. > >
