Re: [selectors4] column selector for multi-column columns

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:04 PM, David Storey <fbnw74@motorola.com> wrote:
> " Added column selectors for styling by association to a table column."
>
> Would the various column selectors apply to columns generated by CSS
> multi-column? The prose mentions cells in 2D grids only, which
> suggests cells in HTML tables (or the equivalent in DocBook).

No, they're only for <table> and equivalent elements in other markup
languages.  Note that they do *not* target columns - they target
elements in a particular column (because the relationship between
cells and columns isn't expressed as a parent/child relationship in
the element-tree).


> Are
> multi-column columns out of scope? The naming of the selector may
> confuse people if they are not targeted. I'd like to be able to target
> them, unless some other selector can already do that in CSS4
> Selectors.

Yes, they're out-of-scope, at least for now.  Targetting elements in a
particular multicol column has some implementation issues, identical
to those of the proposed "element in a particular region" selector for
CSS Regions, and similar to those of ::first-line.

~TJ

Received on Sunday, 2 October 2011 07:54:36 UTC