- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:33:35 -0700
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- cc: www-style@w3.org
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> I propose to add :ltr and :rtl pseudo classes to the Selector module.
>
> These classes reflect value of nearest element with defined @dir
> attribute in child/parent chain of the element.
>
> So if someone will define:
> <body dir=rtl>
> ...
> <ul dir=ltr>
> <li>Some text</li>
> </ul>
> </body>
>
> then li element here can be styled appropriately:
>
> li:rtl { padding-left: 0; padding-right: 10px;}
> li:ltr { padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0;}
>
> The problem is that attribute selector [dir=rtl|ltr] tests
> only the element itself but not its environment (parent chain).
>
> Selectors like these:
>
> *[dir="ltr"] li,
> *[dir="rtl"] li { .... }
>
> and their variations are not quite working for the markup above.
[...]
> Andrew Fedoniouk.
Shouldn't that be?
*[dir="ltr"] li;
*[dir="rtl"] li { .... }
You have a ',' which should be a ';'
Alan
http://css-class.com/test/
Received on Sunday, 16 March 2008 17:50:25 UTC