Skinr Plugins for Form-based CSS Styles

Hi awmckinley!

Let me try to respond here ;)

As I work, it strikes me how useful it would be to be able to create a module that inserts a number of form items into the Skinr form so that we could for modify the styling of individual regions, panes, and blocks (say: adjusting margin-top for a pane, or z-index, or setting absolute positioning).

This can be done now, though it seems like you are trying to move in the direction of making Skinr apply inline CSS properties or make it an actual CSS Editor. While I can see how that might be useful in some cases, Skinr isn't the place to do this IMO. Skinr allows you to create a "framework" of classes and reuse them. Inline CSS is not something it will ever do, and achieving this sort of things with classes isn't exactly efficient. :)

It really wasn't designed to do this sort of thing, BUT if you wanted to, you could do this now:

As you can see, this would become sloppy very quickly.

To answer your questions:

1. The 1.x version is on its way out as soon as we get some more people testing the 2.x version.
2. Another module would be more appropriate.
3. The only other module that I know if that will allow you to affect CSS in the UI is CSS Injector.

I hope that helps. :)