DCSS is a set of technology use collectively to form DSS by utilizing a mix of any server side coding language such as ASP, PHP, Perl, JSP and CSS.
The primary idea of DCSS was drafted in July 2002 by Jori Koolstra, a Dutch programmer. Dynamic CSS or DCSS enables you to job with variable in cascaded style sheet and dynamic rephrasing of cascaded style sheet source.
Dynamic cascaded style sheet is used because you can change the HTML element in a document. You can also change the color, font, spacing, position, indentation and also the visibility of text.
Benefits of Dynamic CSS:
- CSS condition logic and constants.
- on order customer based calculation
- Encompassed logic for styles
- Simple to maintain and support
- CSS size
- UI flexibility
- Scalability
CSS live on the piece of paper and apply to the element during representation point on the customer by the browser. Therefore there are 2 options customer side and server side.
You can write down cascaded Stylesheet creation idea by manually of use one of hundreds available libraries. Dependent on the technology of you’re choosing like PHP, ASP.NET, Java or others you may use server side code to generate CSS with your DCSS.
E.g. with PHP
Usually a piece of paper using dynamic cascaded style sheet is put in 3 achieve or files.A case that holds the cascaded style sheet variables, a .php file that echo ’s the cascaded style sheet content and the webpage where the CSS is required.
The following code shows .dcss file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>DCSS example</title>
<style type="text/css">
<?php
/* Include the style sheet */
require_once("sheet.dcss.php");
?>
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Then include .dcss.php file
<?php
/* Include the variables file */
require_once("vars.php");
echo "p";
echo "{";
echo "font-family: \"$FONT_TYPE\";";
echo "}";
?>
III .And the file that hold the variable for the dcss.php file
<?php
$FONT_TYPE = "Courier New";
?>
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