Re: [CSS21] colons are forbidden in type selectors

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> This rules out the colon character which is widely used in XML names.
> It is not possible given this to write a simple rule such as
>
> pre:name { font-weight: bold}

In non-namespace-aware browsers, you would do:

   pre\:name { font-weight: bold; }

However, this is very poor semantically, as it gives special meaning to
the namespace prefix.

Instead you should use CSS3 Selectors, that are supported by basically all
the namespace-aware XML+CSS browsers:

   @namespace foo url(http://example.net/pre);
   foo|name { font-weight: bold; }

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#typenmsp

Note that the ':' character in CSS has special meaning. The following:

   pre:name { font-weight: bold; }

...would mean "pre elements that match the pseudo-class :name should be
bold".

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