[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is a chain of descendant selectors (with the '>' representing a direct
parent>child pair),
what could possibly be the parent of html ?
According to spec, nothing. However all versions (AFAIK) of IE, both Win
and Mac, render their DOM with an anonymous parent to the HTML element.
Someone else could probably explain with the appropriate technical
terms, but that is how I understand it
So, '* html' will therefore only be a rule rendered by versions of
Internet Explorer as all other browsers (to my knowledge) render
correctly with HTML as the root element. Using this bug to your
advantage via CSS is commonly referred to as the "Star Hack"
Meanwhile IE/Win doesn't support child selectors ('html > body'), but
IE/Mac does. Therefore '* html > body' means that nothing IE/Mac will
render that CSS rule. Commonly referred to as the "Star Body Hack"
(Probably should be "Star Child", but language is what it is)
Cheers
Lachlan
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