On 20 Oct 2006, at 15:26:10, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
On 20 Oct 2006, at 13:42:51, Anders Nawroth wrote:
Be aware that there are different rules for class names in CSS
vs. HTML!
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q6
Good point, Anders; Charles, please note this as a correction to
the relevant part of my own response to your original question.
I knew I should have double-checked with the CSS spec :-(
No, you were (almost) right the first time, without checking the
CSS spec. Even though a class selector may have limitations with
which characters it can use directly, escape sequences allow the
use of absolutely any character at all. So, if you have a need to
use such characters, then you can do so with too much difficulty.
Yes, but the linked part of the CSS 2.1 spec states of identifiers
used in CSS, including class names used in class selectors, that
"they cannot start with a digit, or a hyphen followed by a digit".
So when I originally stated that "12345 is a valid value for the
class attribute" (or words to that effect) I was correct in terms of
HTML 4.01, but such a class could not then be the subject of a class
selector in CSS.
I think... :-)
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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