- From: Henrik Andersson <henke@henke37.cjb.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:16:05 +0200
- To: Axel Dahmen <brille1@hotmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
Axel Dahmen skrev: > AFAIK, there is no way to create a selector matching an element whose > descendant properties match certain criteria. E.g. you cannot apply > CSS rules to a <div> element provided it's containing an <a> element > having focus. > > I suggest to use the "<" (less than) token for such reverse descendant > selector: > > -------------------- > > body > div < a:focus > { > border: 1px solid red; > background-color: yellow; > } > > -------------------- > > <body> > <div comment="this is where above rules get applied if <a> has focus"> > <span></span> > <a></a> > <span></span> > </div> > </body> > > -------------------- > > Your thoughts? > > Axel Dahmen > > > Been there, tried that. First it was proposed using ! to mark the element to apply the rule to. Now we have it as the ":has" function. Spoiler: it's not in the fast profile, so it can't be used in stylesheets.
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