- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:28:53 -0400
- To: Jerry Baker <jerrybaker@attbi.com>
- cc: Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
> Although I might be ignorant of some other purpose of which I haven't
> thought, why can't named anchors be specifically excluded from :hover
> and :active?
Because CSS is markup-language-independent and thus has no concept of a
"named anchor". All it knows is that there is a <a> element. Any other
semantics are attached to the <a> by the document language, which
happens to be HTML in this case.
Keep in mind that CSS is not an adjunct to HTML but an adjunct to
XML-based markup languages in general.
Boris
--
"What the hell are you getting so upset about? I
thought you didn't believe in God."
"I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into
tears, "but the God I don't believe in is a good God, a
just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid
God you make Him out to be."
--Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
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