- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:54:03 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
> > * E:lang(fr) – Probably the most questionable selector since > > apparently replaceable by attribute selectors. > > Certainly not. > > :lang() deals with not only with the attributes carried by the element > also with the language of prose in the element. That is determined not > only by the element itself, but also its ancestors, the META tags on the > document if it's HTML and even the HTTP headers. My fault, the way it is specified it cannot just be “replaced by attribute selectors”. Both the CSS 2.1 and 3 spec parts [1,2] might explain this pseudo-class in more detail though. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#lang [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#lang-pseudo -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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