On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > You just have to write .thing:not([hidden]), or have an explicit [hidden] > rule. It's not a big deal. >
This is a cumbersome, hackish workaround. I shouldn't have to care about whether an element might have its @hidden property set when I set an element to inline-block, and I shouldn't need to hack up my CSS when I hide an element. The better solution would be for us to cascade the display type separately > from the rendering tree inclusion/exclusion decision, but that boat sailed > a long time ago. > Surely nothing prevents adding a CSS property, eg. "shown: no", which takes precedence over display when set to "no" and does nothing when set to "yes". It's probably too late to change @hidden to use it, though maybe not; it would probably break a roughly equal number of sites as the change proposed here would. -- Glenn Maynard