Re: A Call for ::nth-everything

• From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
• Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:57:06 -0700
• To: Lars Gunther <gunther@keryx.se>
• CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4EAEFD92.1060808@jumis.com>

On 10/31/11 12:30 PM, Lars Gunther wrote:
> Bringig this to your attention
>
> http://css-tricks.com/14771-a-call-for-nth-everything/

I've used "nth-char" as a step in an HTML rendering engine (canvas+js), 
not to select a single character but to update my current style for 
rendering inline text. It was handy and easier than specifying and 
calculating ranges.

The nth-everything proposal does not include ranges.
I'd like ::nth-letter(3, 10) -- an offset and a length.

That'd save me a lot of unwanted <span> manipulation.

-Charles

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