[whatwg] Selectors Tests and :enabled

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, fantasai wrote:
> 
> Given the state of current implementations and the fact that hidden input
> elements do have distinct enabled and disabled states, I don't understand
> the reasoning behind this change.
>   http://twitter.com/WHATWG/status/1198455588

The idea was to match Selectors.


> On a related note, the HTML5 spec currently defines :enabled to match
> <a>, <area>, and <link> elements, as well as any other elements that are
> focusable--conflicting with the Selectors spec, which defines :enabled
> to only apply to elements that have a corresponding disabled state.

The spec text I read said "An element is enabled if the user can either 
activate it or transfer the focus to it. An element is disabled if it 
could be enabled, but the user cannot presently activate it or transfer 
focus to it.", which is what I tried to follow:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#UIstates


>  http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors3/#UIstates

I see this has now changed. I will update HTML5 in due course to match 
the new text in Selectors.

(I'll also update my spec index to point to the dev.w3.org link instead of 
the /TR/ page so that I don't make this mistake again.)

Cheers,
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