- From: William M. Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:21:41 -0800
- To: W3C Style Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
Was just rooting around in the w3 forms code, and had a flash of insight.
You cannot really set CSS properties on a form input area very well. The
reason is that you do not know what _type_ of input area it is.
You could in the old CSS spec (level 2) that had ways to access attributes
on elements instead of just class-wise. I'd propose using some 'input'
specific pseudo-classes to specify the type of the input area.
The reason I would like this is that Emacs-W3 allows you to do all sorts of
fun things to input fields. I would like to specify in the default
stylesheet:
input:submit { color: green; text-decoration: none; }
input:reset { color: red; text-decoration: none; }
input:image { vertical-align: blah; text-decoration: none; }
input { text-decoration: underline; }
Without this, you cannot specify that you want everything but submit/reset
buttons underlined, etc.
-Bill P.
Received on Tuesday, 4 February 1997 11:23:39 UTC