Re: selector negation (was Re: New version of the Selectors module of CSS3)

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, fantasai wrote:

>| Of course, as with my argument against :subject pseudo-thing, the :matches
>| pseudo-class is inherently more powerful than the !() syntax.
>| 
>| For example:
>| 
>|    :not-matches(DIV.navbar > P# SPAN) > A
>| 
> 
> Now I'm confused about your syntax. It wouldn't be
>   P:not-matches(DIV.navbar > # SPAN) > A
> ?

Depends what exactly you are trying to match.

The '#' means 'the element the :matches pseudo-class is on'.

So by definition, the following two selectors match all 'X' elements:

   X, X:matches(X#)

Similarly, the following will _never_ match:

   X:not-matches(X#)


> The syntax scares me.

I'm open to better syntaxes! :-)

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Received on Monday, 16 October 2000 11:58:06 UTC