RE: Page pseudo-elements

Michael,

With your proposal how would you support running headers and footers. E.g. a
footer with the current page number. Note that

#footer {
	content: "Page " counter(page);
	display: fixed;
}

would not work as the content of a fixed box doesn't get "updated" every
time it is "instantiated". Perhaps that is what you are also implicitly
suggesting?

Regards,
- Jacob

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Day [mailto:mikeday@yeslogic.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 9:08 PM
To: www-style@w3.org
Subject: Page pseudo-elements






Hi,

A convenient addition to either the CSS3 Selectors or Paged Media modules 
would be the following page pseudo-elements:

	::first-page
	::last-page
	::nth-page(expr)
	::nth-last-page(expr)

These would allow elements that are broken over more than one page to be 
styled differently on different pages; in particular it would allow 
flexible headers and footers in conjunction with position: fixed.

For example, creating a header that is not displayed on the first page:

#header {
	position: fixed;
	...
}

#header::first-page {
	display: none
}

This seems much more convenient than the proposal in the current CSS3 Paged
Media working draft of creating margin boxes that are populated using the
content property.

Cheers,

Michael

Received on Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:27:29 UTC