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- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:13:19 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24111 Bug ID: 24111 Summary: (Rendering) Proposal for styles inheritance on lists numbers and bullets (actually :before and :after pseudo-elements) Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: CR HTML5 spec Assignee: robin@w3.org Reporter: f.knabben@cksource.com QA Contact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: public-html-admin@w3.org # Problem List item numbers and bullets (or pseudo-elements created by :before and :after) don't inherit styles present in the list item contents. # Examples A few examples can be found here: http://jsfiddle.net/P3vRJ/1/ # Proposal If any style apply to the whole contents of list items (or any element defining :before and :after pseudo-elements), the item numbers and bullets (or related pseudo-elements) should inherit such style. To avoid breaking the web, a CSS property could be made available for it, enabling this inheritance on all pseudo-elements created by :before and :after (touching <li> at this point, I assume). This is a rendering suggestion proposal, eventually touching this: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/rendering.html # Reasoning / Background / tl;dr This proposal is a follow-up for the following CKEditor issue: http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/8741 While HTML and CSS provide some control for web developers to style lists and their numbers/bullets, more and more HTML content (actually the great majority of it) is produced by non-technical people, using web-based tools like CKEditor. Many times, understanding the user intentions based on his/her behavior is difficult and in some situations, even if the intention is clearly understood, HTML brings limitations hard to both accept by end-users and to workaround by editing tools producers. The described lists numbers and bullets case is a good example for the above. While it is doable to provide tools to write and style list item contents, transporting styles applied to list items contents to their relative numbers/bullets is very hard in some basic cases (e.g. bold and del) and even impossible in many other situations (e.g. header and classes). The only real solution for this issue is relying on browsers, expecting that they can handle such situations. All this must, of course, be normalized into well accepted standards, guaranteeing its wider adoption. Hopefully this proposal can be taken in consideration. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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