Re: Previous-sibling combinator

• From: Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
• Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:15:16 +0400
• To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Cc: www-style@w3.org
• Message-Id: <133161327706116@web5.yandex.ru>

28.01.2012, 03:08, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>:
> 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

And how would you write following selector using subject indicator?

    P - UL > LI {...}

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