- From: Daniel Glazman <Daniel.Glazman@der.edfgdf.fr>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:21:39 +0100 (MET)
- To: dwagner@kevric.com
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> Is there any particular reason there is no parent selector (say: <) to
> select the parent of an element? Putting together documents, I have come
> across many cases where this would be handy, and one time needed a little
> JavaScript hack to apply a style to the parent of an element, certainly not
> the best solution for something so simple. One example is when in a
> paragraph I include a small piece of very important text (say a
> SPAN.warning). I would like to mark the entire paragraph (say with a
> danger icon in the margin of the paragraph). Another simple example is to
> draw attention to the locations of HTML editing markup, especially useful
> when working with a long document:
> DEL<P, INS<P {border-left: thick red solid;}
>
> The drawback I can think of is the style would have to be applied after the
> UA reads the entire element to determine its contents, but this is not
> unusual; the UA often needs to do this anyway since the overall size of a
> block can depend on the sizes of the elements within.
>
> If this seems like a good idea, I respectfully submit it to this forum as a
> suggestion.
Yes it is. I think that you'll be happy reading the W3C Selectors
Working Draft [1]. It introduces the :subject selector. So selecting a
P that contains a DEL is written
P:subject > DEL
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS3-selectors
</Daniel>
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