[whatwg] <reset> element?
Asbjørn Ulsberg
asbjorn at tigerstaden.no
Fri Dec 15 15:52:24 PST 2006
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:26:53 +0100, Dean Edwards <dean at edwards.name> wrote:
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
>> Dean Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> My thought is that this is a CSS issue and not a markup issue.
I agree with Anne; this is a CSS issue.
> It feels right to fix it with markup.
I completely disagree! :) It feels very wrong to fix a CSS issue with
markup. For what other uses than styling does <reset> make sense? What
semantic meaning does it give the content inside it?
A much better solution is a 'reset' property or property value in CSS that
can reset different inherited and cascaded property values. I can picture
something like this:
#box {
color : red;
text-align: center;
}
#box div {
reset : color; /* resets the color to the browser's default value */
}
#box span {
reset : *; /* resets all cascading and inherited properties */
}
I think this is actually something lacking in CSS and something that
indeed should be proposed to the CSS WG.
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