- From: Jeffrey Yasskin via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:08:38 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10143 ("Improve DX of element reference attributes...") is exploring a bunch of difficulties with globally-unique names, and I suspect they hold almost as much for CSS-assigned names as much as they do for IDs. It'd be ideal for us to come up with a platform-wide way of pointing to elements, and have both CSS and HTML (and JS, via https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11577 or similar) use it somehow. Perhaps a TPAC breakout would be helpful...
Of course, the existence of this platform-wide problem doesn't mean we need to stop the presses on any current CSS proposals using the established CSS patterns. We should just keep looking for a broadly-applicable solution.
(We discussed this in a TAG breakout today, but it's too early to claim TAG-wide support for anything in this post.)
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