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Shaun Inman proposes CSS Qualified Selectors

Source: CSS3 . Info

May 06, 2008

Summary

Shaun Inman did a very interesting post yesterday on what he describes as “CSS Qualified Selectors”. The idea is nice, he wants to beable to do:

a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #A10;
border-bottom: 1px dashed #A10;
}

And then for images:

a < img { border: none; }

So if has a parent , the border isn’t there.

What’s most interesting about the post though is the comments. It seems, as Eric Meyer states there, that this kind of selector has been discussed quite a few times on the CSS mailing list, and isn’t doable. Dave Hyatt, one of the core WebKit developers, comments with a good explanation of why it can’t be done. It’s a nice read, and a good insight into the difficulties of developing a new standard.

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