And more about CSS

CSS was the one thing that really wasn't focused on at jquerycon weekend (I took an entire day overview of HTML5, but CSS was just incidentally spoken about in talks).

So this stuff is particularly new to me.

I really wish there were a way to have semantics in CSS for "next to"

Something along the lines of:

#div1 {

nextTo: #div2 side(right) top(30px);

}

to say "div1 is on the right side of div1, 30 pixels down." and have them stick together. At least for use with IDs. Obviously it can be worked around in javascript, or the math can be done in advance, but that's a pain.

Anyway, this brings me to programmatically-created CSS.

This basically gives me 3 options: LESS, SASS, or PHP/roll-my-own script.

I have to explore these options to see which one is worthwhile, if any.

They all basically do the same thing; allow for variables and less repetition when writing, but outputting standard CSS to the browser.

None of them seem to have the "next-to" functionality that I desire, except in making it easier to do the math.. But that doesn't make them bad.

I will try some stuff out.