- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:10:18 +0000 (UTC)
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, James Clark wrote:
>
> The aspect of <hgroup> that I suspect will cause problems is the
> mechanism for identifying the child of the <hgroup> that is the main
> heading (ie the one that contributes to the outline). The problem is
> that you are often going to want to treat this child specially, eg for
> styling or for transformations, and the rules that the spec describes
> for identifying this child are relatively complex -- the first from
> amongst those children with the highest rank. In particular, I can't
> think of a way to write a CSS selector for this, and the only ways I can
> think of to write an XPath expression for this are very hairy.
For this markup:
<hgroup>
<h1>HTML</h1>
<h2>A markup language for the Web</h2>
</hgroup>
...a rule to style the subheading would be:
hgroup > h2 { ... }
In practice there's no need for a generic solution since the author of the
CSS also controls the markup.
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