Re: Parent Combinator / Parent pseudo-class

Brad Kemper wrote:
[...]
>> A parent combinator pseudo-class or parent pseudo-class requires a CSS 
>> parser to walk the chain.
> 
> Only of immediate children, not of all descendants of a particular 
> has-child selector. Anyone using it more than sparingly should expect 
> some performance degradation.


But what Stephen is`suggesting is firstly to walk the chain backwards to 
the parent element and then secondly match each particular parent child 
combinator. If my understanding is correct, that is a double 
performances hit.


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