772193 - ENH: panel - expose css

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 777821

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Gregg Lind (Fx Strategy and Insights - Shield - Heartbeat )]

Altering the css on panels is hard, because the css / construction is baked into the show() method.

Suggestions:

1.  maybe have a .css() or .attr() method?  (that is tied to a captive '_css' object or something?  
2.  css args in the panel constructor?

(Current solution:  fork/copy the entire panel code, and call it a new class)

Comment 1

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

What kinds of changes would you be wanting to apply to the panel?

Comment 2

[Gregg Lind (Fx Strategy and Insights - Shield - Heartbeat )]

Transparency, borders.  Who knows honestly?  Panel exposes the full power of an 'html doc in a xul wrapper'.  

As you can see in the example code https://gist.github.com/gregglind/iconcontextmenus, I used it to make new 'right click' menus.

Comment 3

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

Gregg problem is that this is specific to panel implementation details. While we do use xul wrapper today on desktop, we don't on mobile firefox. Also there is no guarantees we will continue using XUL in a future.

That being said there is a bug 777821. Once it's  fixed you'll be able to subclass panel and create MegaPanel or something like that and expose more internals. But keep in mind that it won't work on Mobile and may break at any point without further notice.

Closing this one as a duplicate for 777821

Comment 4

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Clearing the triage flag so this doesn't show up in the various triage lists.