As Matthew said, the selectors step down, so you could apply the active_menu
id to the td, then use descendence(!) on the contained elements.
<td id="active_menu"><a>snip</a></td>
#active_menu { styles }
#active_menu a { styles }
Regards
Scott Swabey
Lafinboy Productions
www.lafinboy.com
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew
> Cruickshank
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2005 7:16 PM
> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
> Subject: Re: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id
> selector of the child element
>
>
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:56 +0800, Martin Smales wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to style the td element with a background
> colour if an
> > <a> element has a active_menu id?
>
> No, CSS Selectors don't allow this. They can only step down, not up.
>
> You could do the equivalent in JavaScript, or... well, a long
> term strategy might be lobby browser makers to support XPath
> or something. So basically I don't have any good advice for you.
>
>
> .Matthew Cruickshank
> http://holloway.co.nz/
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