Re: Parent Combinator / Parent pseudo-class

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On Jul 24, 2008, at 10:01 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:

> Second:
>
> Consider these two selectors:
>
> p
>  {
>    border: none;
>  }
>
> html:with-child(a:hover) p
>  {
>    border: 2em;
>  }
>
> and markup:
>
> <html>
>  <p><a href="*">sample</a></p>
> </html>

As far as I can tell, nothing would happen there, because the HTML  
element does not have an anchor ("A" element) as a child. It only has  
one as a descendant, and I thought "with-child" referred to immediate  
children only, not grandchildren.