Re: [css-pseudo] Need a way to styling the disclosure triangle of the <details> (or <summary>) element

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Ting-Yu Lin <tlin@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>> This question was raised in bug 1221416 when implementing <details> and
>>> <summary> elements in Firefox.
>>>
>>> We might need a way to support styling for the disclosure triangle of the
>>> <details> (or <summary>) element. Currently, webkit supports a non-standard
>>> pseudo-class summary::-webkit-details-marker as this article said.
>>>
>>> Xidorn proposed here that we could add ::marker support for <summary>
>>> element in pseudo-element spec.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> I'm happy with Xidorn's idea, and it's already supported by the
>> Counter Styles spec, which has list-style values specifically defined
>> for this.
>
> Yes, but the question is, do we want to make <summary> a list-item? I
> don't think it makes sense. Using list-style on <summary> looks weird
> to me. In the current spec, ::marker is only generated for list-item
> (and inline-list-item). If we want to extend the range ::marker is
> applied to, we would probably need a new concept for it?

The concept is "list-item".  It's an unfortunate legacy name, but that
happens sometimes.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:26:05 UTC