Re: pseudo-class suggestion

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 > > Actually, a pseudo-class is a bit heavy-weight for this, since you
 > > could almost do it with some matching notation:
 > > 
 > >         *[ID=<whatever>] { background-color: green }
 > > 
 > > Steven Pemberton
 > 
 > I don't follow. 
 > 
 > Given this document foo.html:
 > 
 > <!doctype HTML system html4.dtd>
 > <title>foo</title>
 > <h1 id="a123">some text</h1>
 > <div id="b234"><p>more text</div>
 > <a name="c345"><p>and yet more</a>
 > 
 > How would I write a stylesheet to do the right thing each time when the
 > document is referenced on three separate occasions as:
 > 
 > foo.html#a123
 > foo.html#b234
 > foo.html#c345

<STYLE>
*[ID=theThingSelectedByTheCurrentURL()] {background-color: green}
</STYLE>

Or maybe you'd prefer a special operator:

*[ID#=CurrentURL()] {background-color: green}

Steven