- From: Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:09:16 -0700
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 11/4/12 13:30, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> That are just few details. In any case :tooltip or :popup should be
> pseudo-classes that define runtime state of the element rather than
> pseudo-elements as someone proposed in this discussion.
Pseudo-classes reflect *state*, not separate containers to apply the
rules to. So, if :tooltip was a pseudo-class, the declarations within
the rule would style the element itself when a tooltip was shown. For
example,
div[title]:tooltip { background: gold; }
would give the div itself a gold background when the tooltip is shown.
Which could be useful, but not much. The point here is to be able to
style the tooltip itself, and this screams "pseudo-element".
Lea Verou (http://lea.verou.me | @LeaVerou)
Received on Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:09:59 UTC