Need better access to HTML Attributes

[Acorn]

I concur with fading 10 images together would be naff but I was trying to set the scene.
I might be looking at a homespun carousel of all the images with that class.
The other idea I was thing over was an accordion show/hide for headings and a fancier pop-up display on hover over images.
If a class assignment could be realised then I could apply that Name to multiple selections on a few clicks within Xara.

[steve.ledger]

With respect, sounds like Xara Web Designer is the wrong application for you.

[Acorn]

With respect, sounds like Xara Web Designer is the wrong application for you.

sledger, I don't see my interest here any different to those who want to include HTML in placeholders, use the tweaksets or experiment with the Highslide parameters (listed as Stickies in the Forum) or use the supplied Widgets. I would like to use jQuery sometimes rather than rely on undocumented features or HTML 5 Widgets than may come and go.
With a class applied to a group of objects below a vertical position, it would be possible to move them all down the page on the fly to allow for a dynamic replacement in a CMS.

All I was trying to establish was that I hadn't missed some feature that would make such things cleaner and clearer.
Acorn.

[pauland]

I think the difficultly is that you are essentially hacking the pages and while it can work and other people do mini-hacks via placeholders and the like, it's not really a natural use of Xara. Anyone who is manipulating pages like this might ask if life would be even easier not using Xara.

It's really an identification of a bit of a dilemma for Xara, people wanting to extend Xara functionality, but that in itself goes against what I've also thought to be the basic premise of Xara - design without needing to care about the underlying code.

[covoxer]

Hi Acorn.

You have not missed anything. There's no way to specify custom classes or styles in current version. However, if you need this feature so much, I'll add the support of custom classes in the next version. I think this would be sufficient.

[Acorn]

... I'll add the support of custom classes in the next version. I think this would be sufficient.

That will be very useful, covxer. As jQuery is already in use in XWD, it will make make for better HTML integration.
Cheers, Acorn

[steve.ledger]

How's that for developer support! Never let it be said that Xara doesn't listen

[rubiksolver]

Hi Acorn.

You have not missed anything. There's no way to specify custom classes or styles in current version. However, if you need this feature so much, I'll add the support of custom classes in the next version. I think this would be sufficient.

Did the custom classes option make its way into the new version of Web Designer?

[Acorn]

Not found it yet. As it would be an "undocumented" feature, Xara may have named the label anything.
I was waiting for the XWD9(P) to settle.
It would be very handy and marry up with the HTML5 approach quite nicely.

Acorn