Need better access to HTML Attributes

[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

[covoxer]

Yes, this undocumented feature is present in WD9. As it usually happens with undocumented features, it is implemented with a special object name.
Use following name:

htmlclass=MyClass

, where "MyClass" is the class you want to add to the object.

Basically, it's the same syntax as with "filename=".

Make sure you know what you are doing when using this feature. It may not be safe, so if you get unpredictable results, revert back. Also feel free to ask if you have any problems with it.

[rubiksolver]

Thanks for the update and for adding this! I'll have to download the trial to test this as I'm waiting for the Designer Pro version to buy.

[Acorn]

htmlclass=MyClass

A big thank you too!

Acorn

[Boy]

Acorn, could you please show an example of how you make use of this feature?

[Acorn]

Acorn, could you please show an example of how you make use of this feature?

Away from home presently so just a small taster.
You need to examine each object's Name and then open the Page's HTML Code (Head) Placeholder to see CSS and jQuery manipulations.

With a little CSS, you could "frame" all your pictures, have them at opacity 40% until you click on them to come back up to full glory.
All doable in Xara but requires more graphic and layer manipulations, which are not truly scalable.

Rotating text, however, was something someone asked for recently and now it stays as text.

I agree that was all possible before but as there were only IDs, nesting of them failed; classes can be grouped more easily.
Classes also mean that one CSS change alters all items with that class name.

jQuery allows you to make your pages much more interactive.

A classy show.web

Acorn

[Boy]

Thanks for posting this but as I am still using XDP X, nothing happens. I will have to wait till version 9 comes out.

[Acorn]

Thanks for posting this but as I am still using XDP X, nothing happens. I will have to wait till version 9 comes out.

If you can cope with the hassle of unzipping this to your Desktop or folder, it will show you the end result:
index_htm_files.zip

Acorn

[Boy]

Interesting effect. I'll keep the files till the new version is out to take a better look. Thanks for posting.