Idea: Category name as class on body

nicepaul · August 2012

If you were to include the category name (and maybe even the discussion ID) as classes on the <body> tag, that would give great power and flexibility for customising the layouts of specific categories and even individual discussions using CSS.

Something like this?

Then people could target anything on those pages using CSS. A basic example being:

body.general-discussions a{
color:red;
}

It wouldn't affect those people who didn't want to use it, so there's no down-sides to doing this! :)

You could go further and include a class of the username of the person who started the discussion, so you can give custom design features to certain accounts... tho that may be going too far!

thanks, Paul