How to allow site visitor to select own background image/color

[sailingfree]

Anyone know how you allow a site visitor to select their own background color or image for their entire visitor session?

 

[Vragabond]

You would create multiple stylesheets with different color combinations (and background images) and provide the selection somewhere on the screen. On clicking, you would switch up the stylesheets and write the information on which stylesheet the user wants in a cookie. The latter, being the core operations within this script, cannot be done via html, so you will need to resort to either:

a) client side scripting, like javascript (forum216) or
b) server side scripting, like php, asp, coldfusion, perl -- whatever you have available.

You should ask your question in those forums then.

 

[sailingfree]

Cool. Will do.

 

[tsdragon]

I don't like the multiple stylesheet method for a variety of reasons, the main one being that unless you want to code a gazillion different stylesheets, one for every color combination the user can select, you will severely limit your users' choices. I'd much rather simply save the color VALUES, and plug them into the generated HTML in style attributes, or even plug them into an in-line stylesheet.

Tracy Dryden

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