Responsive Alt Class

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The fabulous-looking element above is given a responsive class using the data-alt-class attribute. The initial markup is as follows.

<p class="foo foo- bar"
 data-alt-class="-small 300 -medium qux 500 -large"
>

Hopefully, that’s simple but powerful, borrowing from Tab Atkins excellent RespImg Syntax . The resulting classes would be as follows.

Element width Alternative class
* - 300px: bar foo foo- foo-small
300px - 500px bar foo foo- foo-medium qux
500px - * bar foo foo- foo-large

When a class name contains a trailing dash and an alt class contains a leading -, the two are fused, as is the case with foo-small , foo-medium , and foo-large .

Let me know what you think!