- From: Tab Atkins Jr. via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:26:24 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
All of these examples (and I expect, nearly all reasonable examples you could dredge up beyond these) are fancy headings; any usage of ::nth-letter in body text would almost certainly be... dodgy at best. `::first-letter` has its classic use-case of drop-caps (which we're blessing with specialized properties!), but even with that, there's a very good chance we wouldn't consider it worthwhile if someone tried to introduce it today! One-off effects on top-level headings in a document still seem to be well-handled by just putting some `span`s around the letters you want to individually style. Letting people just do that, rather than trying to deal with all the complexities and weirdness of ::nth-letter, is probably still the way to go. (For example, I don't think *any* of those examples work if a "real" element splits the character, like `<span>fo</span><span>[COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT]o</span>`. Looks like three letters, fóo, and any reasonable definition of ::nth-letter(2) would have it targeting the entire ó letter, but the pseudo-element has to be split into two separate boxes due to the existing tree structure.) -- GitHub Notification of comment by tabatkins Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3208#issuecomment-429417014 using your GitHub account
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