Re: css selecting text "inside" elements

On 2008-05-15, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <66ed0$482b6535$40cba7bc$32631@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>> > In article <521d5$482ae018$40cba7bc$22605@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> >  "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > 
>> >>  A lot of bad ideas still propagate though web 
>> >> design and seen in "authoritative" books, like ... 
>> >> use of HTML comments within STYLE ans SCRIPT elements...
>> > 
>> > Are these harmful ideas?
>> > 
>> You do not see the error?
>
> You were saying that a lot of bad ideas still propagate though web 
> design and seen in "authoritative" books, like using XHMTL over HTML and

> use of HTML comments within STYLE ans SCRIPT elements... 
>
> And that therefore:
>
><style type="text/css" media="all">
><!--
>
> -->
></style>
>
> is bad?
>
> And I was wondering if it was actually harmful.

Not harmful. You would think they would be syntax errors in CSS, but
they are allowed specially for this purpose.

CSS 2.1:
   CSS also allows the SGML comment delimiters ("<!--" and "-->") in
   certain places defined by the grammar, but they do not delimit CSS
   comments. They are permitted so that style rules appearing in an HTML
   source do***ent (in the STYLE element) may be hidden from pre-HTML
   3.2 user agents. See the HTML 4 specification ([HTML4]) for more
   information.

But it would be slightly harmful for a recent book or tutorial to still
be telling people they should do it.

> I use:
>
><style type="text/css" media="all">
>
></style>

I'm not sure you should use media="all" unless your rules are really
suitable for everything, including teletypes, braille devices and
readers, or unless you use @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 in the stylesheets to distinguish.

The chances are very little of that stuff actually works though so it
probably doesn't matter much.