:first-child (was Re: @version rule)

• From: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:39:53 -0700
• To: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@hotmail.com>, peter@linss.com, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <1215838177-339903629@psdbay.com>

From: "Jeffrey Yasskin" <jyasskin@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: @version rule
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2001, 5:36 PM

> BTW, CSS3 UAs SHOULD NOT allow :first-child as it is NOT a valid
> pseudo-element.

Two misconceptions here.

1. :first-child is a pseudo-class, NOT pseudo-element.

2. Single ':' variants of CSS2 pseudo-elements are still supported in CSS3
(and beyond) as Peter pointed out.

Tantek

Received on Friday, 27 July 2001 21:39:22 UTC