- From: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
 - Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:45:36 +0200
 - To: "Andrew Fedoniouk" <news@terrainformatica.com>
 - Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
 
* Andrew Fedoniouk @2008-07-11 22:21:
>> CSS can be used with other markup languages than HTML.
>>
> Correct.
>
> But in context when you have to use :root in selectors you *always* know
> what DOM you are dealing with.
No, that would make :root pretty useless. It's primary use case is rather  
the opposite.
> Example, following implies that you are targeting HTML:
>
>    :root > body > something {}
Certainly not. Any markup language may define an element type with the  
name "body".
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David Håsäther
Received on Friday, 11 July 2008 20:46:14 UTC