Re: [css-values] text()

Le 28/10/2013 17:22, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit :
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jon Rimmer <jon.rimmer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to propose a text() function that returns an element's inner-text,
>> similarly to how attr() returns the value of an attribute.
>>
>> The use-case for this is creating pseudo-elements that replicate the text of
>> the element for decorative purposes. For example, see the following list of
>> link effects:
>>
>> http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeLinkEffects/
>>
>> Most of the effects require the text of the link to be duplicated in a
>> data-hover attribute so it can be referenced via content: attr(data-hover).
>> This same technique can found in other places [1][2][3] but is hardly an
>> ideal practice, given the duplication of content it requires.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7175113/content-attribute-to-inherit-node-value
>> [2]
>> http://blog.adrianroselli.com/2012/10/chromatic-type-with-pseudo-elements.html
>> [3] http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/rollover_text_menu/
>
> Note that the text-content wont' be enough for those decorative
> effects if there's any stylistic markup inside of it; for example, if
> one word in the element is italicized, the pseudo-element's contents
> won't be.
>
> If that's an acceptable limitation, then this seems reasonable.  I'm
> not sure that it is, though.

Apparently the alternative is to use attr() with a data-* attribute, 
which can only contain non-styled text as well.

-- 
Simon Sapin

Received on Monday, 28 October 2013 17:26:43 UTC