[wp-hackers] Admin Color Schemes: generic classes for colors?

[Dino Termini]

Hi Nikola,

WordPress already adds the current color schema class to the body tag. 
But then I don't see anything in the CSS that I could use to recycle, 
let's say, the admin sidebar current background color and use it as the 
background color for my metabox headers. Yes, I could do this in jQuery, 
but I was hoping for a pure CSS approach.

Thank you and happy holidays,
Dino

On 12/20/13, 10:49 AM, Nikola Nikolov wrote:
> Hi Dino,
>
> Why don't you try something like this:
>
> function add_color_scheme_class( $class ) {
>      $color = get_user_option( 'admin_color' );
>      $class .= $color ? " admin-color-{$color} " : ' admin-color-fresh '/*
> "fresh" is the default */;
>
>      return $class;
> }
> add_filter( 'admin_body_class', 'add_color_scheme_class', 10 );
>
> That should add the classes automatically for you - I know that you wanted
> a core solution, but I assume for that it would be best to open a
> ticket(you can do that here - http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ ).
>
> Greetings,
> Nikola
>
> PS: I haven't tested the code, but it should work just fine.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Dino Termini <dino at duechiacchiere.it>wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> we are trying to adapt our plugin to the new admin color schemes, and it
>> would be great if we could have generic CSS class declarations that allow
>> us to apply the current scheme's background/text colors to our elements.
>> Something like
>>
>> .admin-color-flat .sidebar-background-color{ background-color: #.... }
>> .admin-color-vineyard .sidebar-background-color{ background-color: #.... }
>>
>> This would allow plugin developers to leverage those schemes without
>> having to reinvent the wheel every time, and would make their plugins adapt
>> to any third-party color scheme people may be using on their site.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Dino.
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