RE: CSS3 missing selector

Hi, many thanks for all the comments and discussion so far. I've been
watching with great interest, but I'm not familiar with mailing lists so
I've taken a back seat.

>> <section>
>>    <anon for="h1::content-parent">
>>        <h1>My section heading</h1>
>        <p>Para</p>
>        <p>Para</p>
>        <p>Para</p>
>        <p>Para</p>
>    </anon>
> </section>
>
> <section>
>    <h1>My section heading</h1>
>    <anon for="h1::content">
>        <p>Para</p>
>        <p>Para</p>
>        <p>Para</p>
>        <p>Para</p>
>    </anon>
> </section>
>
>I see what you mean. I imagined something like that, but I wasn't sure.

The above expresses very much what I had in mind with the proposal.

>But, since you're only talking about ::content (not :heading)... how
>would you select content and content-parent when sectioning is not
>explicit, ie when dealing with numbered headers like
>
><body>
><h1>Title
><p>text 1
><h2>Subtitle
><p>Text 2
><p>Text 3
><h3>Sub-subtitle
><h4>Sub-sub-subtitle
><p>Text 4
><h3>Sub-subtitle 2
><p>Text 5
><h1>Title 2
></body>
>
>What is ::content for h3? 
>Would it include <h4>?

Yes it would include <h4>. h3::content would give:
<body>
<h1>Title</h1>
<p>text 1</p>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>
<h3>Sub-subtitle</h3>
<anon for="h3::content">
<h4>Sub-sub-subtitle</h4>
<p>Text 4</p>
</anon>
<h3>Sub-subtitle 2</h3>
<anon for="h3::content">
<p>Text 5</p>
</anon>
<h1>Title 2</h1>
</body>

>What if I used <h7>?

Quoting from a reply by Tab Atkins:
"That's not an element in HTML5, so it wouldn't be recognized as a heading
element (this is one of the reasons <section> was created, so you could
'reset' the header depth and avoid running out of header
numbers!)"

>What if "::content" was used in conjuction with a non heading element
> (like p::content)?

That should be a CSS error, as I can only see heading elements benefitting
from ::content or ::content-parent (::section). There are no other elements,
I can think of, that would practically benefit from them.

>What does "::content" mean on its own?

Nothing, it would be a CSS error. Same would go for ::content-parent
(::section).

>Secondly, what are the use cases for "::content-parent" not achieved by
:matches?

Don't know, I could not find anything on :matches, could someone send me a
URI? 

A couple of use cases from the given example:

h2::content-parent or h2::section would give:
<body>
<h1>Title</h1>
<p>text 1</p>
<anon for="h2::content-parent or h2::section">
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>
<h3>Sub-subtitle</h3>
<h4>Sub-sub-subtitle</h4>
<p>Text 4</p>
<h3>Sub-subtitle 2</h3>
<p>Text 5</p>
</anon>
<h1>Title 2</h1>
</body>

h1::content would give:
<body>
<h1>Title</h1>
<anon for="h1::content">
<p>text 1</p>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>
<h3>Sub-subtitle</h3>
<h4>Sub-sub-subtitle</h4>
<p>Text 4</p>
<h3>Sub-subtitle 2</h3>
<p>Text 5</p>
</anon>
<h1>Title 2</h1>
<anon for="h1::content">
</anon>
</body>

all the best
Dave

Received on Thursday, 26 March 2009 18:28:12 UTC