Re: [selectors] Self-referential link pseudo-class

Brilliant, thanks for that Simon.

I love the idea of the argument, but seems like it should target TLD, FQDN, everything up until the querystring, and then everything (always excluding the hash).

Then you could target:
mydomain.com
sub.mydomain.com
sub.mydomain.com/product
sub.mydomain.com/product?id=123
I’m not sure how one would accomplish this without multiple arguments, or multiple pseudo-classes.

Will we be revisiting this any time soon? This has been an issue since HTML 2.0. :)

AK

On 7 May 2014, at 12:35, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote:

> On 07/05/2014 09:59, Antony Kennedy wrote:
>> Hello.
>> 
>> It’s a common issue to try to figure out how to specifically style
>> the link that points to the current URL, for example, in a navigation
>> list:
>> 
>> <ul>
>> 	<li><a href=“/“>Home</a></li>
>> 	<li><a href=“about“>About us</a></li>
>> </ul>
>> 
>> Typically this is dealt with by adding class=“active” or something
>> similar to the link that points to the current URL, or by removing
>> the link altogether, but there is no standardised practise for
>> self-referential links.
>> 
>> What does everyone think of something like :current or :self as a
>> anchor pseudo-class to easily style links that point to the current
>> URL?
>> 
>> This should ignore hashes appended to the location, but probably not
>> querystrings etc.
>> 
>> I’d love to hear everyone’s opinion.
> 
> Until recently, the Selectors spec had a :local-link pseudo-class. You can find it’s definition here:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-selectors4-20130502/#local-pseudo
> 
> It was deferred to Level 5, since some of its details were still uncertain and we’re trying to stabilize Level 4.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Sapin