CSS-like properties for Text Frames

[A.J. Kandy]

I often have to create mockups for buttons, menus, and other web user interface elements. I use Publisher as text boxes and styles map easier to web content.

Some things that are simple to spec in CSS require multiple steps in Publisher, or require hacking single-cell tables, etc.

What would be nice is CSS-like mode for the Text Frames panel that lets a user spec this all in one place:

• padding
• margins
• per-corner border radius (not all or nothing)
• per-side borders (including standard CSS border types built-in)
• gradient borders
• fill (solid, gradient, transparency etc.)
• backgrounds (as in CSS, ability to layer multiple backgrounds, transparency, etc)
• alignment and sizing of background (cover, repeat, etc)
• box-shadows (both inner & outer)

Now, that can all be saved as a Style - although there should be some improvements to the Style palette to make the behaviour and sortability easier - but what would be *extra* nice would be the ability to take an object and have it toggle-able between multiple styles, equivalent to, say, hover, active, visited states, etc. This would greatly speed the ability of designers to create mocks / flows that include object states.