Re: [Selectors3] :nth-child(-negative) from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2010-08-19 (www-style@w3.org from August 2010)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:21:19 -0700
To: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>
Cc: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinhrCNY2wzHALVMGAgjEZV6NazB_jp3iUeJQYre@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> wrote:
> As was pointed out already, you can't do that without breaking stuff.  What I
> can suggest though would be to add syntax like :nth-child(last[-+]an[-+]b) to
> do what :nth-last-child() does right now.  For example: :nth-child(last) or
> :nth-child(last-2n).  That is, "last" is a number that adds to the an+b
> expression.

I don't see any reason to do this, given that nth-last-child() already exists.

~TJ

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