@@ -542,16 +542,17 @@ Cascading and Per-Element Highlight Styles</h3>
542542 <div class="example">
543543 For example, if the following rules were applied:
544544 <pre>
545- p::selection { background: green; color: yellow; }
546- em::selection { color: orange; }
545+ p::selection { color: yellow; background: green; }
546+ p > em::selection { color: orange; }
547+ em::selection { color: red; }
547548 </pre>
548549 to the following markup:
549550 <pre>
550- <p>Highlight this < em> and this< /em> .</p>
551+ <p>Highlight this < em>and this> /em>.</p>
551552 </pre>
552553 The highlight would be green throughout,
553- with a yellow text outside the <code> <em></code> element
554- and a orange text inside it.
554+ with yellow text outside the <code> <em></code> element
555+ and orange text inside it.
555556 </div>
556557
557558 Issue: This could alternately be described in terms of inheritance.
@@ -565,8 +566,29 @@ Cascading and Per-Element Highlight Styles</h3>
565566 <strong> '':root::selection'' </strong>
566567 for their document-wide selection style,
567568 since this will allow clean overriding in descendants.
568- (''::selection'' alone would apply to every element in the tree,
569- overriding the more specific styles of any ancestors.)
569+ ''::selection'' alone applies to every element in the tree,
570+ overriding the more specific styles of any ancestors.
571+
572+ <div class="example">
573+ For example, if an author specified
574+ <pre>
575+ ::selection { background: blue; }
576+ p.warning { background: red; }
577+ </pre>
578+ and the document included
579+ <pre>
580+ <p class="warning">Some <strong>very important information</strong></p>
581+ </pre>
582+ The highlight would be blue around “very important information”
583+ because the <code> <strong></code> element´s ''::selection''
584+ also matches the ''::selection { background: blue; }'' rule.
585+ (Remember that ''*'' is implied when a tag selector is missing.)
586+ The style rules that would give the intended behavior are
587+ <pre>
588+ :root::selection { background: blue; }
589+ p.warning { background: red; }
590+ </pre>
591+ </div>
570592
571593<h3 id="highlight-painting">
572594Painting the Highlight</h3>
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