CSS Stylesheets are a major improvement in the World Wide Web, allowing HTML to come back to its roots: a language to structure and publish content on the web, not to apply a visual formatting to that content. Unfortunately HTML and CSS have the same limitations: both are static languages!

From Perl scripts to PHP, a lot of technologies are today available to move HTML to the dynamic age but why not, going even further and do the same with CSS? That's what I did when developing eDContainer (a container for web sites and web applications), having the following objectives in mind:

If you're quite familiar with PHP and CSS, reading the above objectives will probably make you already think about some solutions to achieve them. That's the fun about coding, always different and sometimes better ways to obtain the same results! When writing this article, I'm not saying that what is described here is the only way to do it. It's a way and I hope I'll manage to keep you interested: Let's start!