Re: [CSS3] selectors: parent combinator?

> i can't see (with css3 selectors) how to select a paragraph containing,
> say a defining instance of a term.

CSS3 Selectors does not have a parent combinator, although many people 
seem to have suggested such a thing.

Ian Hickson's proposal is probably the closest to what you want:

	p:has(dfn) { ... }

Or I suppose you could be even more precise:

	p:has(dfn:contains("HTML")) { ... }

> is there a way to do this with selectors without changing the example's
> html (i.e. adding class/id attributes on the paragraph)?

No, not with CSS3. Even if there was, you would need a user agent that
supported CSS3 Selectors, such as <plug> YesLogic Prince, a batch
formatter for XML+CSS that supports most of the CSS3 Selectors </plug> :)

Michael Day

YesLogic Pty. Ltd.