Re: [css2] tokenization, blocks as property values.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 07:34:32PM -0800, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> Reading this part: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#tokenization
> 
> Seem like this:
> 
> div {
>    some-prop: { /* prop value may contain blocks, so: */
>      start: 0%;
>      end: 100%;
>      color-stops: white/0% red/100%
>    };
> }
> 
> is a valid *syntax* construction from CSS 2.1 point of view.
> 
> Am I right?

More precisely, it conforms to CSS 2.1's description of the core grammar.
It does not conform to the grammar of valid CSS 2.1 that's described
(non-normatively) at http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html .

A quick search doesn't turn up any normative text saying that property values
can't contain blocks, but OTOH there's no CSS 2.1 property called "some-prop",
and none of the properties that CSS 2.1 does define allow blocks in their
values.

pjrm.

Received on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 04:32:16 UTC