- From: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:58:30 +0200
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, "Alan Gresley" <alan@css-class.com>
- Cc: "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, "Sylvain Galineau" <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
From: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org> > On Tuesday 2010-05-18 18:11 +1000, Alan Gresley wrote: >> And this is what I am questioning. A pseudo element is a >> manipulation of the DOM by CSS. ::first-letter creates a pseudo line >> box (much like span) and ::first-line changes the formatting of a >> series of line boxes. ::before or ::after generates pseudo element. >> >> To select (highlight) content of any part of a web document is a >> user action. I can either select, hover, click or bring into focus >> various elements via a mouse, keyboard or other device that acts >> with a UA. >> >> With the default selection of UA (using Windows), the background >> becomes a opaque or transparent blue (seen with images) and black >> text is changed to white. Why is this considered so different from >> :hover, :active, :focus? > > ::selection is a pseudo-element for a very simple reason: it has to > apply to *part* of an element (the part that's selected). > Pseudo-classes either match an element or not; they can't apply to > part. True. But do we agree it is not a pseudo-element either ? ::selection seems to be a syntax, there's no need to make it match any reality in term of DOM, is there ?
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