- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:31:01 +0000
- To: CSS Style <www-style@w3.org>
Although I write CSS on a more-or-less daily basis,
I still regularly find myself using an incorrect syntax
that seems so natural to me that I simply fail to remember
that it is incorrect. Time and again I find myself
writing defective CSS such as
Foo.bar {margin-top, margin-bottom: 1ex}
only to belatedly remember that I am required to
either explicitly replicate the value, as in
Foo.bar {margin-top: 1ex; margin-bottom: 1ex}
or (far worse) use the totally unmemorable shorthand
Foo.bar {margin: ...}
where I invariably forget the order of the (upto) four values.
Given CSS allows me to cluster selectors, as in
Foo.bar, Foo.baz {property: value; ...}
is there any fundamental reason why it could not
be extended to allow /properties/ to be clustered
in the same way ?
Philip TAYLOR
Received on Thursday, 17 January 2008 10:31:16 UTC