- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:55:37 -0700
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote: > I would strongly prefer we use pseudo-classes here. I don't get why we would want to use pseudo-elements. We're not talking about a unique object as we are with other pseudo-elements. We're just talking about how an element itself looks in a particular region. In the example above the portion of <h1> that is in a region is still the <h1>, so I think a pseudo-class is far more appropriate. "The portion of <h1> that is in a region" is a unique object, though, just like "the portion of <p> in the first line" is. A pseudoclass just filters elements, exactly like a normal class would, so any properties would still apply to the *whole* <h1>. You need a pseudo-element to select a "portion" of an element, because you need to explicitly add more structure to the element-tree. ~TJ
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