- From: Alexander Shpack <shadowkin@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:23:27 +0300
- To: jwl@worldmusic.de
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Joergen W. Lang <joergen_lang@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear CSSWG,
>
> are there any plans to implement one or the other form of regular expression
> in CSS?
>
> I know that attribute selectors do some basic RE matching. But for anonymous
> boxes (a.k.a. plain text) authors are still limited to using <span> and
> friends.
>
> To style the third "word" (combination of 'word' characters/syllables/...)
> in a paragraph one could write:
>
> p::regex(/^(?:\w+\s+){2}(\w+)/) {
> background-color: #cf6;
> }
>
> Or maybe she wants to give quotation marks a special treatment:
>
> h1::regex(/['""„“”«»’,]/g) {
> font-family: Baskerville, "Book Antiqua", serif;
> font-style: italic;
> }
>
> After reading the thread regarding the '::first-word pseudo element' [1] I
> can see there are a lot of implications and questions. One argument against
> ::regex() was that it selects actual content.
>
This simple feature may complete replace ::first-letter
pseudo-element... I vote for it!
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s0rr0w
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