- From: Rune Lillesveen <rune@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 13:13:45 +0200
- To: Shane Stephens <shans@google.com>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Shane Stephens <shans@google.com> wrote: > I'm not sure it makes sense to match rules on out-of-document elements at > all. Some rules (like nth-child) are conditional and may match once the > element is inserted (plus there's inheritance), so any computed style is not > guaranteed to be correct. I'd rather specify that elements must be in the > tree to match rules, and either provide no style or provide initial values > only for out-of-document elements. I didn't understand what you meant by :nth-child and the computed style not being correct. :nth-child would never match detached elements which do not have a parent element, the same way document root elements never match :nth-child. Descendants would match as usual. > I don't think there are any compatibility issues for open web content as our > behavior here is quite divergent. No, probably not. I don't know if there are any obvious use cases here. -- Rune Lillesveen
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