- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:33:47 -0700
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> textarea, svg html textarea, svg html html textarea { ... }
>>> svg textarea, svg svg textarea, svg svg svg textarea { ... }
>>>
>>> or something, for practical purposes. But that's not acceptably
>>> robust for UA stylesheets, I'd think.
>>
>> It's not acceptable for user sheets either, nor in my opinion for author
>> sheets.
>
> You're already forced to do stuff like this anyway in some cases. For
> instance, if you want to alternate between three styles of bullets for
> <ul>,
>
> ul li { list-style-type: disc }
> ul ul li { list-style-type: square }
> ul ul ul li { list-style-type: circle }
> ul ul ul ul li { list-style-type: disc }
> ul ul ul ul ul li { list-style-type: square }
> ul ul ul ul ul ul li { list-style-type: circle }
> ul ul ul ul ul ul ul li { list-style-type: disc }
> ul ul ul ul ul ul ul ul li { list-style-type: square }
> ul ul ul ul ul ul ul ul ul li { list-style-type: circle }
Maybe we need a 'nth-generation-of-type()' in CSS4 Selectors.
Received on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:34:27 UTC