- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:56:28 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
* Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Without stating preferences, could this be written without “nest”, “this” and parentheses?
>>
>> #header {prop: value;
>> @ img {prop: value;}
>> @> nav {prop: value;}
>> }
>>
>> body > article.post > form input[type=checkbox] {prop: value;
>> @:checked {prop: value;}
>> }
>>
>> my > long > selector > string {prop: value;
>> @::before {prop: value;}
>> }
>
>Not easily. The syntax of @-rules is that they must start with an "@"
>followed by an identifier.
>
>I'm not sure if I could omit the () or not. It would be ideal if I
>could, though.
As far as the current specification is concerned, the requirement is to
read, when looking for a declaration, up to the end of the declaration,
recognizing all the quoting and nesting constructs in the process. The
end of a declaration is either the closing `}` of the containing rule-
set or a `;` at the right level. Since selectors do not use `;` at the
top nesting level there is no problem with omitting the identifier or
omitting the parens, as far as conforming implementations are concerned.
There of course never has been a conforming CSS parser, so this would
require a good amount of testing if you care about graceful degradation,
but that's necessary with this proposal anyway.
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