- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:20:17 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Jonny Axelsson <jax@opera.no>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "alexgeller@web.de" <alexgeller@web.de>
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Jonny Axelsson wrote:
>>
>> By the original grammer even the following should be valid
>> #myid#anotherid { font-size:12pt }
>> Under "5.9 ID selectors"
>
> This one I wouldn't worry too much about. By prose CSS is aware of the
> uniqueness of IDs, but there is nothing in CSS to prevent impossible
> selectors like :link:visited, nor is there any need for that. It is like
> selecting triangles with four corners. I see no philosophical or practical
> reasons why a selector that can't return any element should be disallowed.
Indeed that example isn't even impossible -- if an element has ID
attributes from two namespaces, for instance, or if it is in a non-XML
language. Also, using the same ID twice is a quick way of increasing the
specificity.
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