- From: Benjamin Poulain <bpoulain@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:15:47 -0700
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Aug 28, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote: > On 28/08/14 22:41, Benjamin Poulain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The definition of :matches() has the following restriction: >> "Pseudo-elements cannot be represented by the matches-any >> pseudo-class; they are not valid within :matches().”. >> >> Can someone shed some light this restriction? >> >> Greping through some CSS, it seems quite common to have >> “something::after, something::before”, which could be written as >> "something:matches(::after, ::before)”. This seems like a useful >> capability. > > I suppose we could lift that restriction when :matches() itself is at the end of the top-level selector. > > What we want to restrict is things like :matches(::after) > div That would be great. :) Benjamin
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