Re: Text selector [was Re: breaking overflow]

On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:28 AM, James Hopkins wrote:

> To clarify, you're suggesting that ::text("foobar") would match the string "foo bar"?

Are you saying that "foo bar" would not normally be a single text node, but rather two adjacent text nodes?

>> I still don't support
>> matching across element boundaries, as it will work in a non-intuitive
>> manner.  For example, the following code:
>> 
>> <p>foo <i>bar</i> baz</p>
>> p::text("foo b") { display: block; }
>> 
>> Would result in the following display:
>> 
>> foo
>> b
>> ar baz
> 
> The pseudo element would be restricted to applying a limited range of properties, similar to ::first-line or ::first-letter.

I think the need to have a full range of properties is much, much greater than the need to select across element boundaries.