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Helpers for specifying body attributes for the layout
Often a template/partial needs to access the attributes of a body tag.
The attached patch enables a convention that body tags should have an ID and class that makes it easier to scope unobtrusive stylesheets or javascript to a part of an application. The default id and class attributes are based on the controller path and action.
This patch also provides a simple mechanism for overriding the
default body attributes thru repeated calls to
add_body_attributes which may occur anywhere in the
main template or in included partials.
Additionally, the facilities needed for merging tag attributes on the body tag are exposed as general tag helper methods that can be used to compose attributes for any tag.
This patch is an extraction of a pattern that I've used in just about every rails app that I've created in the past three years -- I find this to be an extremely useful and maintainable way of managing the body tag.
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body_attributes.diff
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ChrisIf it's useful for review or merging, here's the branch with this changeset:
http://github.com/chriseppstein/rails/commits/body_attributes
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Santiago Pastorino- State changed from new to open
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Santiago Pastorino
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