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Asked: 2026-05-14T04:35:08+00:00

I am writing a Page with XML Only. No XSL is being. everything is

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I am writing a Page with XML Only. No XSL is being.
everything is going well with XML and CSS.
But how can I make Input fields with XML and CSS Only ??
is it really possible ??

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  1. Editorial Team

    Xml is for data transformation, porting, trasportation, etc – things related to data.

    CSS is for styling.

    You will need something for instance, html(or XForms?), to provide/render controls.

    Or probably, if you plan to render the control yourself, then you can, for instance, add an element, and render the control by parsing it yourself.

    <MyControl type="Text">This is a test value</MyControl>

    When you see MyControl having a Text type then add a Text control.

    –EDIT–

    This is in response to your comment.

    I understand what you are saying; to be clear, I believe CSS by nature/actually is for styling – therefore CSS is applied “on” the controls, CSS aren’t the controls; so we come up with certain classes, ids, selectors and apply them over the controls.

    This may be, yet again, a fat example, but its like telling a “Paint” to build a “House”.

    Probably you already know this, but this is just to add: Following is how CSS is applied to a html button control.
    Example taken from here:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>CSS Button</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
  font: 140%/1.6 "Gill Sans", Futura, "Lucida Grande", Geneva, sans-serif;
  color: #666;
  background: #fff;
}

a:link, a:visited {
  display: block;
  width: 6em;  
  padding: 0.2em;
  line-height: 1.4;
  background-color: #94B8E9;
  border: 1px solid black;
  color: #000;
  text-decoration: none;
  text-align: center;
}

a:hover {
 background-color: #369;
 color: #fff;
}

</style>
</head>

<body>

<p><a href="#">Button</a></p>

</body>
</html>

    The above code is going to render a button with css applied like following:
    alt text http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4615/72060104.jpg

    So to answer your question directly, I believe it is not possible to render a control with CSS.

    Now based upon your requirements, I understand that:
    1. You want to render the control yourself.
    2. You want to apply CSS to that control.

    Solution 1:
    1. Add, parse and render your custom control xml tags, as discussed earlier.
    2. And add the CSS style within xml, see example

    Solution 2:
    1. Add, parse and render your custom control xml tags, as discussed earlier.
    2. Add css in xml CDATA; while xml parse, grab the CSS from CDATA, and apply to the control.

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