- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:32:04 -0700
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed. Suppose HTML creates an inline element called MARKER containing regular text that must be part of the document. Could we then have a mechanism for turning that into a CSS marker for styling, and let it act like a full-fledged marker? Something like this:
>
> Li::marker { content: marker }
>
> Or without any new HTML element, then something like this:
>
> Li::marker { content: firstMatchingChild("span.markyMark"); }
>
> This would move the element into the marker position, to where it would only be selectable as a ::marker pseudo-element.
Yes. I'm writing the spec text for this feature right now. It should
work like:
<ol>
<li><span class=marker>A.</span> foo
<li><span class=marker>B.</span> bar
</ol>
<style>
.marker { display: marker; }
ol { list-style-type: inline; }
</style>
The 'inline' type specifies that the first display:marker child of the
list-item is used as the contents of the ::marker pseudo. The
so-chosen display:marker child itself does not render. Use of
display:marker in any other context is equivalent to display:inline.
~TJ
Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 23:32:51 UTC