[whatwg] Forms feedback

Jonas Sicking jonas at sicking.cc
Tue Apr 6 11:04:30 PDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>> Well you currently can do this by using the onbeforeprint and onafterprint
>> hooks, though that's not exactly pretty. Hopefully it will also be
>> possible with media-specific CSS, though that depends on how <details>
>> ends up working in CSS. If this proves to not be enough, we'll have to add
>> something to support it; however, I'd like to wait until this is more
>> widely deployed (so we get more experience) before changing this.
>
> I believe the CSS for <details> can be nothing more than:
>
> details:not(open) > :not(summary) {
>  display: none;
> }

This doesn't hide text nodes that are direct children of <details>. For example:

<details>
  <summary>Summary goes here</summary>
  Details that should be hidden are here
</details>

/ Jonas



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