make pseudo-elements non-anonymous

Wed Mar 3 00:51:48 CET 2004

The example actually doesn't work right now because the first-letter 
floats, and thus nodeAtPoint is called by the <p> and not the <a>.  
It's pretty easy to patch this case though.

dave

On Mar 2, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

>
> On Mar 2, 2004, at 1:49 PM, David Hyatt wrote:
>
>> Consider this example:
>>
>>
>> <head>
>> <style>
>> p:first-letter { font-size: 150%; float: left; border: 3px solid 
>> green; padding: 5px; }
>> </style>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>> <p><a href="http://www.apple.com">Click here</a> to visit apple.com 
>> etc. etc.</p>
>>
>>
>> If the "C" first-letter container has <p> as its DOM element, then 
>> the DOM will deliver mouse events to the <p> when you're over the 
>> border/padding area of the first-letter, bypassing the anchor 
>> entirely.
>>
>> Of course this also doesn't work right now (with the first-letter 
>> container being anonymous), but it feels conceptually cleaner to me 
>> to leave the generated content container for first-letter without a 
>> DOM element.
>
> I think it does currently work, we walk up the render tree for 
> anonymous elements when mouse tracking, so we will hit the <a> and 
> deliver mouse events there. This is particularly memorable to me 
> because I just recently fixed the case where the anonymous content is 
> in it's own layer (i.e. it is positioned), the normal case already 
> worked fine.
>
> I think you are right though that the proposal would break the example 
> you gave.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
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