- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:23:43 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > * fantasai wrote: > >Re: 6.6.2 The target pseudo-class :target > > > >I can see the usefulness of styling targets, but how is the UA to > >know whether an element has been targeted or not? Anchors can be > >targeted from outside the document. > > Well, > > <a xlink:href="http://host/#target">link</a> > > Most UAs will try to jump to the beginning of the addressed fragment > when the user follows such a link. They know where they should go as > they know which links are :visited and wich are :not(:visited). Ok, I misunderstood that section. So, :target selects the element with id="target" only if I've just followed a link to #target, not if I've arrived at http://host/#other-target. > I strongly agree here, I'd liked the :subject pseudo-class very much. > Why has it been removed? One reason is because :subject is not a pseudo-class; that is, the syntax is wrong. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2000Oct/0061.html
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