- From: Jonny Axelsson <jax@opera.no>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:36:18 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:50:10 +0100, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@tu-
clausthal.de> wrote:
> I don't know the answer to your question, but you should use attribute
> selectors here:
>
> element[class~"name"] {...},
>
> because the dot notation for classes is only intended for HTML. See REC-
> CSS2 5.8.3.
Or more exact, it is intended to work with HTML. There is nothing to
prevent it work with other languages. It will not work with pure XML
though, as XML doesn't support the RTFM Protocol.
As it has been more clearly stated in the Selectors draft [1]:
<< Note: UAs may apply selectors using the period (.) notation in XML
documents if the UA has namespace specific knowledge that allows it to
determine which attribute is the "class" attribute for the respective
namespace. One such example of namespace specific knowledge is the prose
in the specification for a particular namespace (e.g. SVG 1.0 describes the
SVG "class" attribute and how a UA should interpret it, and similarly
MathML 1.01 describes the MathML "class" attribute.) >>
[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#class-html>
--
Jonny Axelsson,
Web Standards,
Opera Software
Received on Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:38:37 UTC