- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:15:59 -0700
- To: "Belov, Charles" <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com>
- Cc: Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com>, Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Belov, Charles <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com> wrote:
> Lea Verou wrote at Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:09 PM
>> 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".
>
> No, it would be very useful for accessibility, e.g., in a personal style sheet:
>
> *:tooltip { font-size: large; }
What are you intending that to do? If you want the tooltip to use a
larger font-size, then you want the pseudo-element:
*::tooltip { font-size: large; }
~TJ
Received on Thursday, 12 April 2012 00:16:48 UTC