- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <andrew.fedoniouk@live.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:01:11 -0700
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Simple question: is <meter> element [1] styleable by CSS in
principle?
The <meter> can be in low/high/optimum states and
for CSS purposes it is desirable to reflect somehow these
states as :flags or [attributes] so CSS selectors can be used
to define at least something.
Otherwise authors will not be motivated to use <meter> where
it is really needed.
And yet, all UAs that support <meter> now render it
very close to <progress> which is IMO misleading.
There are other elements and input widgets that have their
own states that should be styleable.
I suspect that the easiest way to add reflection of inner state
to CSS is to use special state-*** attributes that will be
ideologically close to data-*** attributes that we have already.
So for the <meter> we will be able to define something like
this:
meter[state-meter="low"] { background-color: yellow; }
meter[state-meter="optimal"] { background-color: green; }
and meter implementation is responsible for setting this attribute.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-button-element.html#the-meter-element
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Andrew Fedoniouk
http://terrainformatica.com
Received on Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:01:39 UTC