Custom classes

[hxlnt]

Enjoying this project quite a bit, so firstly: thanks!

I do find myself wishing I could add custom classes in the case that I want to be able to choose from different styles for the same HTML element (e.g., tables where I'd like a fixed column width to be applied to only some tables or specific inline text styling). I'm not sure how custom classes could be implemented across the board, since they can kind of be applied to anything, and it would be challenging to know what element the class should be attached to. But any thoughts on adding this in the future?

In the case that it's too complex as a broad implementation, I can imagine at least something straightforward for <span>s that mimics the syntax for .text:

.span {my text} class:{myClassName}

(I could even imagine .text being a convenience method for specific .spans.)

Comments/thoughts/workarounds appreciated!

[iamgio]

Hi @hxlnt, thank you!

Custom classes have been bugging me for a while now, and everytime I'm close to implementing them, I step back, thinking about Quarkdown's cross-target compatibility philosophy.

I agree it would be great to have something like .container class:{xyz}, but what if Quarkdown supports LaTeX in the future? Should it be ignored or should it throw an error?

Your suggestion is definitely doable, I can see class being available for both .container for blocks and .text for inlines; I just need to understand how to handle this potential cross-target issue.

[hxlnt]

Thanks for the reply!

EDIT: Oh, LaTeX support wouldn't go through the HTML parser. See, I said I wasn't familiar with it! Haha..

I'm not super familiar with LaTeX, but just from an HTML perspective: you can define multiple classes on an item, attach one to an element after page load with JS, etc. So it seems like competing classes from Quarkdown and LaTeX could just… coexist? With the browser rendering engine left to decide, as it would with regular HTML, which CSS lines are actually applied?

It might feel messy, but as a web developer, it feels pretty normal, since I very much expect to have DevTools open while I'm working on custom themes so I can sniff out overwritten CSS. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[iamgio]

I've opened #217 :)