Bug 84834 – CSS Specificity: First-line style(if present) is always applied

• Component: CSS
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Pravin D]

Issue:
According to 
http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors/#specificity and
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090908/cascade.html#specificity

The specificity of a first-line selector much be less than ID selectors, class selectors and inline style. However on webkit , the first-line style seems to applied irrespective of the presence of any other selectors or inline style.


Steps to reproduce:
Open the attached test case. There should be no red text visible.

[Pravin D]

Created attachment 138773 [details]
Test Case

[Shane Stephens]

because ::first-line is a pseudo-element selector, div::first-line doesn't select the same thing as #div1 or div.divclass. The test case you provide demonstrates expected behaviour - you can think about the pseudo-element selector as a selector that introduces extra structure to the document and then styles the structure that is created:

<div class="divclass"><::first-line>Filler Text Filler Text Filler Text</::first-line><br>...</div>

[Pravin D]

(In reply to comment #2)
> because ::first-line is a pseudo-element selector, div::first-line doesn't select the same thing as #div1 or div.divclass. The test case you provide demonstrates expected behaviour - you can think about the pseudo-element selector as a selector that introduces extra structure to the document and then styles the structure that is created:
> 
> <div class="divclass"><::first-line>Filler Text Filler Text Filler Text</::first-line><br>...</div>

Ah!!! sorry... got it