Re: element existence selector

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Peter Krauss <ppkrauss@gmail.com> wrote:

> Since CSS2 we can express the "existence of attributes",
>
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-CSS2/selector.html#h-5.7.1
>
> with the *[att]* selector,
>
> *    element[att] {do}*
>
> and it is easy implement this kind of conditional selector in CSS
> parsers...
>
> The suggestion (or question) here is about use *the same ideia with
> elements*, a kind of existence operator,
>
> *    e1 <existenceOperator> e2 {do}*
>
> to say "if element *e1* exists, selects the *e2* element".
>
>
> * if it is a new suggestion, can I discuss here this subject?
>
> * if there are *some old discussion about it*, sorry, can somebody reply
> with a link?
>
> ------
> PS: I think that this kind of <*existenceOperator> *can used in a big
> subset of (imagined) applications of the problematic
> previous-sibling-selector, and also used as a "*trigger*" in event
> selectors, like
>       e1:hover <*existenceOperator*> e2 {do}
>
>
>

Can you explain how is that not just

 e1 e2 {...}

?  If there is no e1, the e2 won't match.  If there is, it will.


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