Some basic helpers for generating CSS style declarations in Elm
CSS style declarations are key-value pairs consisting of a property name and a value assigned to that property. When working with styles in Elm, it is sometimes desirable to write a function that takes a CSS value, performs a calculation, and returns the modified value. This library allows for a basic type differentiation of CSS values so that type-mismatch errors can be handled more easily.
For example, suppose you want to write a function that takes a background color
and returns a suitable foreground color. If the background color were stored as
a string, you would have to parse the string in order to determine whether it
properly encodes a color value, handling any type conversion errors in the
process. The advantage of using the CssBasics package in this case is that it
gives you a convenient way of storing the color value as a Color and
converting it to a string only when the style declaration is rendered. So when
writing a function like the example above, error handling can be performed with
simple pattern matching — if the CssValue supplied is of the Col type,
perform the calculation, otherwise return a default value.
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