Kenny Graham wrote: > just curious... I know served as XML, the comments should be > completely ignored, but if it's served as text and parsed all > SGML-ish, are comments supposed to count as nodes? I'm one of the > lucky young ones who never dealt with the fun old ways of spacer gifs > and table layouts, so I haven't a clue. And if they do count as > "comment nodes" or whatever, would IE's behavior there be correct?
No it's not correct, according to CSS 2.1: "Adjacent sibling selectors have the following syntax: E1 + E2, where E2 is the subject of the selector. The selector matches if E1 and E2 share the same parent in the document tree and E1 immediately precedes E2, ignoring non-element nodes (such as text nodes and comments)." <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#adjacent-selectors> At a guess, their code for implementing adjacent selectors (which is part of the new IE 7 code and thus not yet thoroughly testes) is looking through the DOM tree for the next element node, but is somehow getting the impression that the comment node _is_ an element node. Quite how one would manage to write code that does this is hard to see, but then again it's the kind of idiotic mistake I and every other programmer in the world make all the time :-) You might want to add the above CSS 2.1 reference to your bug report at the IE feedback site, just so they know. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
