- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:08:23 -0800
- To: "Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com" <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com
<mtanalin@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> It would be nice to have combinator to select previous sibling.
>
> P - UL {
> /* Styles for UL element which is
> previous sibling of P element. */
> }
>
> The "-" combinator is functionally similar to existing "+" combinator, but selects previous-sibling element instead of next-sibling one.
>
> So in result we would have "+" to move forward, and "-" to move backward (like element.nextSibling and element.previousSibling in DOM, respectively).
This is already possible with Selectors 4, using the normal sibling
combinator and the subject indicator:
!ul + p { ... }
~TJ
Received on Friday, 27 January 2012 23:09:19 UTC