- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:12:34 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sep 11, 2013, at 1:34 AM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote:
> Two possible solutions are sketched here:
>
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-gcpm/#page-and-column-pseudo-elements
>
> #1, building on pseudo-element:
>
> article::page(left) p { /* select all p elements that appear on left pages in an article */
> text-align: left;
> }
It actually feels more like a pseudo-class to me, though I can understand those who disagree.
> #2, Brad's curly brackets solution
>
> @page :left {
> ...
> {
> p { text-align: left } /* select all p elements that appear on left pages */
> }
> }
>
> I like both syntaxes.
We could have both, actually. One could be syntactic sugar for the other, allowing more freedom for where authors want to write their rules (do I put the 'article:page(right)’ rule right after my 'article' rule, or do I put all the '@page:right' rules together in a block?).
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