RE: Styles for Input Elements?

It won't work in IE4.0.  Attributes in selectors is a new CSS2 mechanism.

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Shah, Anup [SMTP:ashah@strategy.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 12, 1998 6:16 AM
> To:	www-style@w3.org
> Cc:	'www-style@w3.org'
> Subject:	RE: Styles for Input Elements?
> 
> On Wednesday, March 11, 1998 5:58 PM, Chris Wilson
> [SMTP:cwilso@MICROSOFT.com] wrote:
> > Erm, you didn't mean to leave a space between "input" and
> "[type=text]", did
> > you?
> > 
> 
> With or without the space, I can't seem to get it to work... (Using
> IE4.0)
> 
> Anup
> 
> Here is a sample HTML I tried...
> 
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> 	<TITLE>Untitled</TITLE>
> 	<style>
> 	<!--
> 		input[type=text] { font: normal 80% arial;
> background-color:#e7e7e7; color:"Gray"; }
> 	-->
> 	</style>
> </HEAD>
> 
> <BODY>
> 
> <p>Enter Some text below.</p>
> <input type=text value="Some Text Here">
> 
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> 
> > -Chris
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Chris Lilley [SMTP:chris@w3.org]
> > > Sent:	Wednesday, March 11, 1998 1:11 PM
> > > To:	Shah, Anup
> > > Cc:	'www-style@w3.org'
> > > Subject:	Re: Styles for Input Elements?
> > > 
> > > Shah, Anup wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I take it that while I could specify a style for INPUT, I cannot
> specify
> > > > a style for, say SUBMIT, or TEXT? 
> > > > 
> > > > If I am wrong PLEASE let me know!!
> > > 
> > > Given that the relevant HTML is <input type=text> the CSS2 selector
> you
> > > want is
> > > 
> > > input [type=text] { your stuff here }
> > > 
> > > > (I am using and developing for IE4.0 only - nice luxury!)
> > > 
> > > Oh. Since IE 4 predates the attribute selector syntax this won't
> work.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Chris Lilley, W3C                             http://www.w3.org/
> > > Graphics,Fonts,Stylesheets Guy    The World Wide Web Consortium
> > > http://www.w3.org/people/chris/              INRIA,  Projet W3C
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> 
>

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