- From: Chris Hubick <chris@hubick.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 2003 17:14:23 -0700
- To: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
Request For Enhancement - CSS3 Selectors - Parent combinators.
A parent combinator describes a parenthood relationship between two
elements. A parent combinator is made of the "less-than sign" (<)
character and separates two sequences of simple selectors.
Example:
The following selector represents a <section> element that is parent of
an <h> element:
h < section
This would allow you to do something like the following:
h < section {
padding-top: 0;
}
That rule would eliminate the padding at the top of any <section>
containing an <h> element, such as the first <section> in the following
document fragment:
<body>
<section>
<h>My Example Heading</h>
<p>Example paragraph text.</p>
</section>
<section>
<p>Example paragraph text.</p>
<p>Example paragraph text.</p>
<p>Example paragraph text.</p>
</section>
</body>
On a related note, an "Ascendant combinator" ('/' ?) might be a nice
touch too. Though, unlike Parent, I personally haven't bumped into the
want for one yet.
--
Chris Hubick
mailto:chris@hubick.com
http://www.hubick.com/
Received on Friday, 24 January 2003 19:14:24 UTC