Re: URL CSS pseudo class

I think you are mistaken; I believe his was an idea to style certain pages
with a url that matched a pattern, whereas yours is an idea to style links
which had a url which matched a pattern. It's basically the same, but one
applies styles to multiple elements if the url matches, while the other
applies styles to one element if the url matches.

And, if I'm not mistaken, you could achieve the same thing which you are
proposing by using 'a[href="url"] {style}', or at least the main part of
what you are proposing (selecting based on href). It could be possible to
select based on directory level, if you could use the '*' wildcard character
in the selector (e.g.: href="http://domain.com/*/*"), but I'm not sure if
that's implemented.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Jason CranfordTeague <
jason@brighteyemedia.com> wrote:

>  This is not unlike a pseudo class concept I pitched a while back to allow
> styling based on the current URL for agent. Could this two concepts possibly
> be combined?
> *CSS 3 Recommendation*
> *Current Link Pseudo-class Selector*
>
> *Need*
> Current CSS standards allow for the independent styling of links based on
> the client history using the visited link pseudo-class. This allows
> designers to indicate which links the visitor has been to previously.
> However, visitors need to not only know where they have been, but where they
> are and where they are going as well. Web designers need a way to
> conveniently style a link based on the clients current URI in order to
> create more useful menus and bread-crumb trails as well as indicate whether
> a link is pointing out of the current site.
>
> *Solution*
> In order style links based on the users current location within a site and
> to differentiate internal versus external links, I propose the addition of a
> new "current" link pseudo-class. This pseudo-class would not only be used to
> style a link if it's *href* matched the clients current URI, but also
> style links based on directory level.
>
> The current link pseudo-class selector would have the following pattern:
>
> E:current(n)
>
> Matches element E if E is the source anchor of a hyperlink of which the
> target matches the clients current URI if no number (n) is included or
> matches up to the directory level indicated by n. A value of n=0 compares
> only the top level domain.
>
> So, given the links:
>
> 1- <a href="http://www.bered.com">RED</a>
> 2- <a href="http://www.bered.com/style>Style</a>
> 3- <a href="http://www.bered.com/style/prom.html>Prom Styles</a>
>
>
> and the styles
>
> 1- a:current {}
> 2- a:current(0) {}
> 3- a:current(1) {}
> 4- a:current(2) {}
>
> If the client's current URI is:
>
> http://www.bered.com/style/prom.html
>
> Link 1 would receive style 2
> Link 2 would receive style 3
> Link 3 would receive style 1 and 3
> Style 4 would NOT be applied
>
>
> *Potential Uses*
>
> *Site Navigation Menus*: Site menus could be consistently styled based on
> the visitor's location within the site giving them a quick visual
> representation.
> **
> *Bread-crumb menus*: Levels in a bread-crumb trail can be displayed based
> on the current page URI, eliminating the need to use server-side technology,
> JavaScript, or create separate instance for every page within the site.
>
> *Internal/External links*: Links that point to another domain can be
> styled separately from links that keep the visitor within the domain. In
> addition, once the CSS target attribute is added, this will allow designers
> the ability to always target external links to a new window.
>
>
>
> *
>
> *
> *
> *
> *JASON CRANFORD TEAGUE*
> * jason@brighteyemediacom |  www.brighteyemedia.com
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Charles-André Landemaine wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> A new CSS pseudo class to target a specific site would be really
> helpful, especially for user styles. I could imagine a stylesheet that
> uses some code like this one:
>
> head:url(google.com)>body{background:#cf0}
>
> We could allow regular expressions also to match URLs with or without
> the "www." prefix, "http" or "https", etc...
>
> e.g. head:urlmatch(/http:\/\/ad\./)>body{display:none}
>
> This would be easier to carry just one global user stylesheet instead
> of one user style sheet per site (ex. Opera, Firefox Stylish ext.).
> Thanks for your comprehension,
>
> Charles-André Landemaine.
>
>
>