- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 23:50:57 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Jos? Lucas Teixeira de Oliveira wrote: > > I think there should be a way to bind a link tag "<nav>" with a > "<article>" specific, creating a function of "active menu" automatically > in HTML5. What is your opinion? On Sat, 7 May 2011, Kit Grose wrote: > > Possibly an even more generic case for this would be when an anchor > tag's href attribute points to the current URL, allowing for any type of > content (article or otherwise) to get simple active nav item selection. On Sat, 7 May 2011, Jos? Lucas Teixeira de Oliveira wrote: > > I agree with you Kit, this is an even better suggestion that would > greatly facilitate the work of developers, save time and performance, > eliminating the use of other languages ??????to accomplish such a feat. On Sat, 7 May 2011, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > I don't understand what problem you're trying to solve, or what user > agent behavior you are proposing. Me either. It would be helpful to have a clearer problem description so that I could more adequately evaluate the proposal and determine how to address it, and indeed whether it is worth addressing. On Sat, 7 May 2011, Andr?? Lu??s wrote: > > Recognizing that the href is the same as the current uri. > > I agree it woud be nice, but I see this as a proposal for the css wg. > This has pseudo-class written all over this. > > :current or something. > > Nowadays we solve this with a .current or .active class name. > > Not exactly life-changing, but useful nonetheless. This may be of interest: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4/#local-pseudo -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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