On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:54:09 -0800, Dylan Wilbanks wrote:
> Someone I know came to me with a problem: he wants his print stylesheet to
> not apply a
> style when a link contains an image.
>
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>
> The generated content appears around the example link AND the linked image
> when you
> print it. He doesn't want it to appear around the linked image.
>
> I thought that using the :not selector was the solution:
> a:not([href*="flickr"]):before
> { content: " ["; color: #000; text-decoration: none; }
> a:not([href*="flickr"]):after {
> content: " " attr(href) "] "; color: #000; text-decoration: none; }
>
> But there are two obvious problems:
> 1. Anchor links are now getting generated brackets thrown around them 2. If
> he switches
> away from Flickr or links to an image on a non-Flickr, he has to add a new
> exception
> every time
>
> I know there's a way in XSLT to test for a child element, but it doesn't seem
> like you
> can do the same in CSS.
>
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Correct. You can't.
> Is there a simple, elegant solution I'm missing here?
Simple? Elegant? Depends. If you know any PHP, adding a suitable CLASS
to links around images should solve it.
Cordially,
David
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