what is "data-author" ?

[DroidHost]

what is "data-author" ? in the template

<li id="post-84" class="message staff" data-author="Ali">

is it possible to use it inside css ? and how ?

 

[bambua]

It's a custom attribute:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/customattributes.shtml

It really depends on what's reading it as to what you can do with it.

Here's some info on using CSS with it:

http://www.frequency-decoder.com/20...g-generated-content-and-html5-data-attributes

It's generally not recommended, the best use I've seen for it is for filtering on the website if you don't want to see someones post in XenForo

what is "data-author" ? in the template

<li id="post-84" class="message staff" data-author="Ali">

is it possible to use it inside css ? and how ?

 

[DroidHost]

Fine , I fiugre it out