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Re: [css3-page][css-gcpm] Styling elements differently based on whether they appear on a left or right page

From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:49:01 +0200
To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Cc: "Lea Verou" <lea@verou.me>, "Alan Stearns" <stearns@adobe.com>, "www-style list" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.w29abzpwidj3kv@simons-macbook-pro.local>
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:12:34 +0200, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it should be a pseudo-class. In article:page(left) you want to select  
the article element itself, hence pseudo-class.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Wednesday, 11 September 2013 16:42:19 UTC

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