Re: [css4-ui] Styling the caret

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com> wrote:

> But what if they want to set the caret color to be the same as the
> foreground color of the editable area, whatever that may be? You might
> think that they can use the 'auto' keyword:
>
> [contenteditable] {
>   background: white;
>   color: black;
>   caret: auto;
> }
>
> But consider this case (where the | represents the caret):
>
> <div contenteditable>
> …<p style=color:red>this paragraph | is red</p>…
> </div>
>
> If the RTE developer uses the 'auto' keyword, the caret will be red,
> when they intended it to be black. (The p inherits caret: auto, and auto
> means currentColor, so it's the p's currentColor, not the div's.)
>

Can you describe a more concrete use-case where this matters?

I can't think of a reason why an author would want to lock the caret color
to the text color of a container element, without knowing what the text
color is, and knowing that there could be multi-colored content in the
container.

Rob
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