- From: Daniel Tan <lists@novalistic.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:41:34 +0800
- To: Yannick Ihmels <yannick@ihmels.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On 2/7/2016 12:15 AM, Yannick Ihmels wrote:
> Why do we need an additional pseudo-class `:any-link`, if we could
> simply write `[href]`? There are no issues with specificity, because
> they are equally specific [(0, 1, 0) vs. (0, 1, 0)].
Because [href] is specific to HTML. (To be pedantic, only a, area, link
elements with a href attribute will match the hyperlink pseudo-classes
in HTML.)
> You could also write `:matches(:link, :visited)`. That’s clearer than
> a pseudo-class named “any-link”.
It is, but it's also more verbose. Granted, :matches is still useful
when using :link and :visited with more elaborate selectors, such as
body > header > a:matches(:link, :visited)
being (slightly) shorter than
body > header > a:link, body > header > a:visited
But for the simplest of cases, like
a:link, a:visited
it's pointless to rewrite the above to use :matches as that would only
result in more bytes used:
a:matches(:link, :visited)
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Daniel Tan
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