Make Alternate CSS-style sticky

[Geert]

Could you make the alternate CSS-styles sticky, so they apply to the whole domain, for the session?

Now only the option "View-menu --> Page Style --> No Style" is sticky: once selected, it is active on that whole domain for that session, until we select another style. This is what I would expect.

However, this does not work for alternate styles: the alternate style is lost on each reload or when going to the next page of that site. So it needss to be manually selected again and again. A bit cumbersome.

Is it possible to make the behaviour for alternate styles the same as for the No-style option, thus sticky for the session? This is a user-interface issue, similar to resizing text, so it should be handled on that user-interface level, I think.

Thanks.

[Kerebron]

Just use Stylem add-on.

[Moonchild]

You can blame the powers-that-be for a behaviour change in that respect, as controlling it via content scripts was deemed more important than having a UI option, and they were incompatible to have concurrently. As a result, the UI option will "forget" any custom styles that might have been enumerated on navigation. It's not really possible to make that "stick" with the current resulting spec.

[Geert]

Thanks for the quick answers, I appreciate it.

A technical question: in which way is the "Alternate style" different from the "No Style" option that *is* remembered throughout the session? Couldn't the same mechanism be re-used? If a developer uses other mechanisms to apply styles (e.g. javascript and variables or cookies on every page), they would override it anyway, I guess? Or do I see that wrong? (I am no programmer, I only have very basic knowledge about software.)

An Add-on would be great if it was only for my own comfort, but I can't expect others to use it on my website. I wanted a cookie-free and javascript-free website, because of both my aversion against them, and my lack of knowledge in these fields. I can do basic HTML and CSS, and simple static sites, but that is about it (for example see: "www.interthk.be", which was for courses for Flemish dentists, but now only an archive-site and test-site). As a technician, I like things to be simple, especially if I have to maintain and repair them.

[Moonchild]

in which way is the "Alternate style" different from the "No Style" option that *is* remembered throughout the session?

"No style" is internal to the browser and always present, so that's always a valid option. Alternate styles will have to be enumerated upon load and are not remembered.

[Kris_88]

Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets
by Paul Sowden
November 02, 2001

https://alistapart.com/article/alternate/

[Kris_88]

MDN
Alternative style sheets

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... yle_sheets