- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 06:54:20 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Sat, 3 May 2003, Ernest Cline wrote:
>
> For example, consider the following set of CSS rules:
>
> ::selection {outline: medium red solid}
> ::selection>* {outline: medium green dashed}
>
> If ::selection could have children this would enable a user to
> determine if the selection boundary matched up with an element boundary
> even if it was not obvious in the nonselected document.
I would suggest that there would be much better ways, in terms of user
interface, to show this. The rule above is likely to end up with multiple
intersecting lines in a rather confusing muddle.
> 1) Is there a way of establishing that ::selection has precedence?
I'm not sure what you mean by "precedence". It has a specificity of
(0,0,0,1), same as any pseudo-element.
> Still if the intention is that ::selection is to have no children, then
> that is something that should be added to the errata.
Probably.
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