On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:58 PM, David Hucklesby wrote:
> I was using CSS3 style pseudo-elements like this some time ago -
>
> p::first-letter { ... }
>
> This seemed to work in most browsers, including IE6. Only the
> single-colon versions work in IE7 and IE8 though. <sigh />
Small nitpick: the fact that it 'works' in IE 6 (and older, iirc) has
more to do with a buggy parser than anything else, including 'by
design'. IE 7 & 8 only support CSS2 selectors and a small subset of
CSS3 selectors. The double '::' notation of pseudo-elements is not
part of it.
Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
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