[wp-testers] CSS in WYSIWYG

[Owen Winkler]

Andy Skelton wrote:
> Here's a thought: theme authors now have functions.php. In the editor
> we could do something like this:
> 
> $image_classes = apply_filter('editor_image_classes', array());
> if ( count($image_classes) > 0 ) {
>  echo "<select ...>";
>  foreach ( $image_classes as $label => $class )
>   echo "<option value='$class'>$label</option>";
>  echo "</select>";
> }

"editor_image_classes"?  Are you thinking to limit the dropdown to 
applying classes to only images or would there be an additional filter 
to supply classes for paragraphs or new spans or whatever else might be 
selected?

In regard to the issue brought up about theme authors not being PHP coders:

It should be academic to write a function for functions.php that parses 
the CSS to get a list of all classes, or perhaps just classes with a 
special comment marker after them:

.img_style_4 { float:left; }
/* EDITORCLASS:FloatLeft=img_style_4 */

Writing such a function is a no-brainer, and should be easy enough for 
theme authors to employ generically by dropping in an appropriately 
enabled functions.php.

I foresee a future in which theme authors ask each other, "Which 
functions.php are you using?"

Owen