pseudoElt argument to getComputedStyle()

The second argument to getComputedStyle() is defined as:

pseudoElt of type DOMString 
   The pseudo-element or null if none.

This seems to me to be very much under-specified.

For example, is "first-letter" an acceptable value of "pseudoElt"?  What
about ":first-letter"?  What about "::first-letter"?

Presumably ":selection" would be invalid, but what about "selection" or
"::selection"?

It seems to me that in this context the string is unambiguously a
pseudo-element, so "first-letter", ":first-letter", "::first-letter",
"selection", "::selection" should all be allowed and do the right thing,
while ":selection" should not have any effect (be treated as "" or null).

Comments?

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Received on Monday, 25 February 2002 21:05:56 UTC