- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:08:57 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> The Selectors Level 3 specification should probably go into more detail
> on how boxes for ::selection are to be generated so that it's clear how
> it interacts with other styles, etc. That would also help if someone
> decides to support background-image for ::selection.
>
> WebKit and Gecko support it in such a way that it doesn't affect the
> selection color of child elements. So if you have:
>
> p::selection { background:lime }
>
> <p>FOO<span>BAR</span>BAZ</p>
>
> and someone selects "FOOBARBAZ" "BAR" will have the default selection
> color. I don't really care about how this is going to be done, but I'd
> like it to be defined.
Right, and that behaviours is intentional. If you want better,
just write
p::selection, p *::selection { background: lime };
</Daniel>
Received on Monday, 26 November 2007 20:09:08 UTC