- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 02:00:52 +0100
- To: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Etan Wexler wrote: > The CSS3 Text module (<http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-text- > 20020515>) notes that "The 'writing-mode' and 'direction' properties, > when specified for table column elements, are not inherited by cells in > the column [...]. Thus, CSS cannot easily capture the "dir" attribute > inheritance rules described in [[HTML4.01], section 11.3.2. " > > The solution is a pseudo-class that selects 'table-cell' elements by > matching the column in which the 'table-cell' elements reside. > > Consider the following example. > > th:in-column(colgroup.totals > col) Not possible, since the cascade happens before the value of the 'display' property is computed. -- Ian Hickson ``The inability of a user agent to implement part of this specification due to the limitations of a particular device (e.g., non interactive user agents will probably not implement dynamic pseudo-classes because they make no sense without interactivity) does not imply non-conformance.'' -- Selectors, Sec13
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