- From: Kishore Kulkarni <kulkarni@pathcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:12:11 -0400
- To: "Bert Bos" <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>, "Ranjit Singhe" <ranjit_singhe@mail.com>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Kartik is not on this email anymore. Please do not send any mail to kulkarni@pathcom.com -----Original Message----- From: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr> To: Ranjit Singhe <ranjit_singhe@mail.com> Cc: www-style@w3.org <www-style@w3.org> Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 5:36 PM Subject: Re: selector matching question >Ranjit Singhe writes: >> hello, >> >> this (i hope) is not a css writing question. it is more a selector matching >> question. i've attached a simple html file that uses styles. >> >> it has to do with ancestral resolution. when you look at the html it should >> be fairly clear what i'm trying to do. >> >> for a while now i've been using gecko to test my resolution cases, so try it >> in gecko; hence this post. :) >> >> here's my question (the atmt. reflects this case): >> >> if an element (SPAN) has two ancestors of the same name (OL) >> >> e.g. > >...+-- DIV >...+-- DIV >........+-- OL >.............+-- DIV >..................+-- DIV >........................+-- OL >.............................+-- SPAN >...................................+-- (Text) > >> and there are two styles in order as follows: >> >> DIV > DIV OL SPAN { color: blue } --- (1) >> DIV + DIV OL SPAN { color: magenta } --- (2) >> >> what is the color of (Text) ?? >> >> i think it should be magenta 'cos: >> a. OL parent of SPAN is found >> (1) succeeds >> (2) fails >> b. because 2 failed, we look further up and find >> OL parent of DIV >> (1) fails >> (2) succeeds >> c. because 1 failed, we look further up and find no >> more ancestors with name OL >> >> because (2) is chronologically after (1), the text should be magenta 'cos it >> beats (1) on the collisions. (i say this 'cos the specificity (= 4) and >> owner (= author) are the same.) >> >> even if (1) and (2) had succeeded at stage b., (2) would win because of the >> chronology contest. >> >> am i right??? > >I believe you are. > >With the new selectors in CSS2 it has become necessary to test >multiple ways to match a selector against a tree of elements. There is >no rule that says that the OL ancestor of SPAN must be the nearest >ancestor. > > >Bert >-- > Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ > http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA > bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 > +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France > >
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