Re: Addressing space outside a document's root element

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 5/13/13 9:47 AM, Axel Dahmen wrote:
>> Is this a peculiarity to HTML and the <body> element? Because if it
>> isn't I would prefer if CSS provided a declarative way (hence, a
>> selector) to address space outside the root element.
>
> In HTML the root element is the <html> element, not the <body> element.
>
> That said, for the particular case of the 'cursor' property the same problem
> is present when it's set on the <html> element.
>
> For some properties (e.g. 'background') CSS propagates the effect of the
> property from the root element to the viewport.  Perhaps it makes sense to
> do that for 'cursor' too...

Yeah, it probably does make sense to propagate 'cursor' to the viewport.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 13 May 2013 17:06:43 UTC