Explaination request: MS test (IE8, RC1) -- H4\at-rule-001.htm

Hi,

 

Find below the test document.

Please notice that the @ and import identifier are separated by a space.

 

I expected that the invalid at-keyword would end at the ; after at-rule-red.css";

 

The specification says: “User agents must ignore <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#ignore>  an invalid at-keyword together with everything following it, up to and including the next semicolon (;) or block ({...}), whichever comes first.”

 

This results in a red “Filler Text”, can somebody please give me an explanation why the div rule should be ignored as well?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Best Regards,

Robert Stam

 

TallComponents

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>

        <title>CSS Test: Parser error handling with invalid at-rules: @ invalid selector</title>

        <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />

        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#parsing-errors" />

        <meta name="flags" content="invalid" />

        <meta name="assert" content="At-Rules start with an at-keyword (@ followed immediately by an identifier)." />

        <style type="text/css">

            @ import "../../../Support/at-rule-red.css";

            div

            {

                color: red;

            }

            *

            {

                color: green;

            }

        </style>

    </head>

    <body>

        <p>Test passes if the "Filler Text" below is green.</p>

        <div>Filler Text</div>

    </body>

</html>

Received on Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:16:37 UTC