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Re: Suggestion for @global to help with <style scoped>

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:12:26 +0000 (UTC)
To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
cc: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1109211710180.16440@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, fantasai wrote:
> On 09/20/2011 05:22 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, fantasai wrote:
> > > 
> > > So, given that, rather than having a "scoped vs. global" switch, how
> > > about using a pseudo-class to distinguish whether a portion of the
> > > selector is matching out-of-scope elements? E.g.
> > > 
> > >       <style scoped>
> > >        section>  h1 { border-bottom: solid; }
> > >        :context(body.homepage) h1 { color: red; }
> > >        :context(body.archive) h1 { color: gray; }
> > >       </style>
> > 
> > ...what element does the :context() match against?
> 
> The one defining the scope.

So basically :context(...) is like :scope:matches(... #) ?

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