[thelist] I've found a great use for <span>
Jim Dabell
jim-lists.evolt.org at jimdabell.com
Fri Aug 2 10:01:32 CDT 2002
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On Friday 02 August 2002 2:48 pm, Simon Willison wrote:
> At 14:08 02/08/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> >What would be wrong with:
> >
> ><div id="horizontalMenu">
> > <a href="page.html">Page1</a> |
> > <a href="page.html">Page2</a> |
> > <a href="page.html">Page3</a> |
> > <a href="page.html">Page4</a>
> ></div>
> >
> >div#horizontalMenu * {
> > display: none;
> >}
> >div#horizontalMenu a {
> > display: block;
> >}
> >
> >Just curious, I can't see any problem with specificity, and it seems
> > fairly understandable to me.
>
> I just gave it a go and it doesn't work in Mozilla, probably because of
> the * (I don't think wildcards are part of the CSS standards at the
> moment).
It's not a wildcard, it's the universal selector. I realised why it won't
work - the bars are not elements, so they can't be selected for a css rule.
- --
Jim
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