- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 07:17:35 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Tantek Çelik wrote:
>
> It is a misconception that you must match random braces everywhere when
> parsing CSS. See CSS1 section 7.1 for precise specifics on when "blocks"
> (as defined in 7.1, {...} ) may appear.
CSS1 7.1 (emphasis mine):
# A block starts with a left curly brace ({) and ends with the
# matching right curly brace (}). In between there may be any
# characters, except that parentheses (()), brackets ([]) and braces
# ({}) always occur in matching pairs and may be nested. Single (')
# and double quotes (") also occur in matching pairs, and characters
# between them are parsed as a string (see the tokenizer in appendix B
# for a definition of string).
#
# ...
#
# A declaration-block starts with a left curly brace ({) and ends with
# the MATCHING right curly brace (}).
The spec doesn't explicitly give an example with a block before a
colon, but I see no justification in the spec for ignoring the rules
given above on the left hand side of a declaration.
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