- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:31:42 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
>
> About ::selection pseudo, in particular "Applies to the portion of a
> document that has been highlighted by the user." [1]
>
> Is it selector that defines some global object or is it supposed to be
> applied to particular elements too?
>
> If later then what are the cascading/inheritance rules?
>
> Let's say we have some <richtext> or just <div contenteditbale> on the
> page.
> Then what would mean the following?:
>
> richtext::selection
> {
> background-color: highlight;
> color: highlight-text;
> }
>
> And how it will interact with say:
>
> richtext p::selection
> {
> color: white;
> }
>
> ?
>
> Will p::selection pseudo-element inherit background-color: highlight;
> value or not? It appears that ::selection elements shall establish their
> own inheritance chain so p::selection pseudo will inherit *all* attributes
> of any ::selection object defined upstream.
>
> I think that styleable ::selection in principle is a good thing,
> just want to clarify how it can be used/implemented.
Added to the issues list.. See also
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2006Jan/0091.html
~fantasai
Received on Saturday, 28 June 2008 06:32:18 UTC