- From: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:45:06 +0200
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
You're forgetting than an element might span multiple pages. We want to select the *fragment* that lies on a left/right page, hence, pseudoelement.
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On 11 Sep 2013, at 18:49, "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Simon Pieters
> Opera Software
Received on Wednesday, 11 September 2013 17:41:35 UTC