- From: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:14:51 +1100
- To: www-style@w3.org
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Hugh Guiney <hugh.guiney@gmail.com>, whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On 4/02/12 7:22 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Hugh Guiney wrote:
>> As I understand it, the main reason for rejecting<di> was that it
>> solves a problem that is allegedly CSS's job, but as an author who uses
>> <dl>s quite extensively, adding a grouping element would really make my
>> life a lot easier.
> There are a number of places in HTML where it would be nice to be able to
> group things together -- just look at how often people stick<div>s in
> their pages for no purpose whatsoever other than styling.
>
> This shouldn't be necessary. It's a limitation of CSS.
>
> The right solution is for CSS to provide some pseudo-element or other
> mechanism that introduces an anonymous container into the rendering tree
> that wraps the elements you want to wrap. For example, with the square
> brackets representing the anonymous boxes:
>
> <dl>
> [<dt><dd>]
> [<dt><dd>]
> </dl>
>
> dl::group(dt...dd) { border: solid; }
>
>
> <header>
> <p><a href="/">Home</a>
> [
> <h1>The Blog</h1>
> <p class="byline">Our blog away from home
> ]
> <p class="copyright">Bla bla
> </header>
>
> header::group(h1...p.byline) { border: solid; }
>
>
> This isn't a formal proposal, but you get the idea. If we solve this
> problem, the need for<di> completely goes away, but more importantly, so
> does the need for a huge number of<div>s.
>
Could you provide examples for how this suggestion solves styling
specific name-value groups within the <dl>, e.g.
dl > li.hidden { display: none; }
dl > li.closed > dd { display: none; }
dl > li::even { background-color: #ccc; }
Received on Friday, 3 February 2012 22:15:20 UTC