- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:48:11 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20160422204811.GA17804@pescadero.dbaron.org>
So the spec for the currentcolor: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/#currentcolor-color says that currentcolor represents the value of the 'color' property. The text-emphasis-color and text-decoration-color properties: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-3/#propdef-text-emphasis-color https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-3/#propdef-text-decoration-color use currentcolor as their initial value. However, the compat spec introduces a -webkit-text-fill-color property that overrides the color of text: https://compat.spec.whatwg.org/#the-webkit-text-fill-color which has proven to be needed for compatibily. I believe Edge has implemented it, and Gecko has an implementation and is working on implementing the full set of changes needed to ship that implementation. In Chromium (and I presume WebKit, although I didn't test), the -webkit-text-fill-color property also influences the color of text-decorations. See this test: http://dbaron.org/css/test/2016/currentcolor I presume that it should also influence the color of text-emphasis, although neither Chromium nor Edge appears to implement text-emphasis, and the patches to Gecko so far haven't done this (although I think they should). How should this be handled? I see a few options: (1) Say that the 'currentcolor' value has different meaning for text-decoration-color and text-emphasis-color, and for those properties uses '-webkit-text-fill-color' instead of 'color'. (2) Introduce a new value, such as 'current-text-color' or 'current-text-fill-color' (maybe without hyphensโฝ) that is the initial value of 'text-decoration-color' and 'text-emphasis-color'. Again, I wrote a few tests for this at: http://dbaron.org/css/test/2016/currentcolor although I think more could probably be added. -David -- ๐ L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ ๐ ๐ข Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ ๐ Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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