On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > As a supplementary question to this, I agree that the > spec. for XHTML permits this (whilst the spec. for > HTML does not) but in what circumstance(s) do you > believe it to be useful ? I ask because there can > (and must) be exactly one instance of an HTML element, > so why would a CSS declaration for the HTML element > not be as useful as a CSS declaration for its ID ?
A number of scripts out there append a class to the root element (html) to style elements based on that. Modernizr comes to mind: http://www.modernizr.com/ <html class="is-ie-6"> html.is-ie-6 body { display: none; } or something like that... :-) Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
