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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
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<h1 class=p-name>CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3</h1>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft <span
class=dt-updated><span class=value-title title=20130603>3 June
2013</span></span></h2>
<dl>
<dt>This version:
<dd><a class=u-url href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-conditional/">
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/ED-css3-conditional-20130603/</a>
<dt>Latest version:
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-conditional/">http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-conditional/</a>
<dt>Editor's draft:
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href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-conditional/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-conditional/</a>
(<a
href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/csswg/log/tip/css-conditional/Overview.src.html">change
log</a>, <a
href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/csswg/log/tip/css3-conditional/Overview.src.html">older
change log</a>)
<dt>Previous version:
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-css3-conditional-20130404/"
rel=previous>http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-css3-conditional-20130404/</a>
<dt>Editors:
<dd class="p-author h-card vcard"><a class="p-name fn u-url url"
href="http://dbaron.org/" rel=author>L. David Baron</a>, <a
class="p-org org h-org" href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a>
<dt>Issues list:
<dd>Maintained in document (only editor's draft is current)
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/"
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<dt>Test suite:
<dd><a
href="https://test.csswg.org/shepherd/search/spec/css3-conditional/">submitted
tests</a>, <a
href="https://test.csswg.org/harness/suite/CSS3-CONDITIONAL_DEV/">nightly
test suite</a>
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=abstract>Abstract</h2>
<p>CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents
(such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. <span
class=p-summary> This module contains the features of CSS for conditional
processing of parts of style sheets, conditioned on capabilities of the
processor or the document the style sheet is being applied to. It includes
and extends the functionality of CSS level 2 <a href="#CSS21"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>, which builds on CSS level 1
<a href="#CSS1" rel=biblioentry>[CSS1]<!--{{CSS1}}--></a>. The main
extensions compared to level 2 are allowing nesting of certain at-rules
inside ‘<code class=css>@media</code>’, and the addition of the
‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rule for conditional processing.
</span>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=status>Status of this document</h2>
<!--begin-status-->
<p>This is a public copy of the editors' draft. It is provided for
discussion only and may change at any moment. Its publication here does
not imply endorsement of its contents by W3C. Don't cite this document
other than as work in progress.
<p>The (<a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/">archived</a>) public
mailing list <a
href="mailto:www-style@w3.org?Subject=%5Bcss3-conditional%5D%20PUT%20SUBJECT%20HERE">
www-style@w3.org</a> (see <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Mail/Request">instructions</a>) is preferred for
discussion of this specification. When sending e-mail, please put the text
“css3-conditional” in the subject, preferably like this:
“[<!---->css3-conditional<!---->] <em>…summary of comment…</em>”
<p>This document was produced by the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members">CSS Working Group</a> (part of
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/">Style Activity</a>).
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href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5 February
2004 W3C Patent Policy</a>. W3C maintains a <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32061/status"
rel=disclosure>public list of any patent disclosures</a> made in
connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes
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Claim(s)</a> must disclose the information in accordance with <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Disclosure">section
6 of the W3C Patent Policy</a>.</p>
<!--end-status-->
<p>See the section <a href="#cr-exit-criteria">“CR Exit Criteria”</a>
for details on advancing this specification to W3C Recommendation. The
specification will remain Candidate Recommendation at least until 2
October 2013. A <a
href="http://test.csswg.org/suites/css3-conditional/nightly-unstable/report/">test
suite and implementation report</a> are under development.
<p>See the section <a href="#changes">“Changes”</a> for changes since
the last Working Draft.
<p>The following features are at risk:
<ul>
<li>The inclusion of ‘<code class=css>@font-face</code>’ rules and
‘<code class=css>@keyframes</code>’ rules as allowed within all of
the @-rules in this specification is at risk, though only because of the
relative rates of advancement of specifications. If this specification is
able to advance faster than one or both of the specifications defining
those rules, then the inclusion of those rules will move from this
specification to the specification defining those rules.
<li>The addition of support for @-rules inside of conditional grouping
rules is at risk; if interoperable implementations are not found, it may
be removed to advance the other features in this specification to
Proposed Recommendation.
<li>The ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rule is at risk; if
interoperable implementations are not found, it may be removed to advance
the other features in this specification to Proposed Recommendation.
</ul>
<!--
Things to go in level 4:
* Create some way to put these new conditional things on an @import.
* The @document rule (commented out, down below).
-->
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=contents>Table of contents</h2>
<!--begin-toc-->
<ul class=toc>
<li><a href="#introduction"><span class=secno>1. </span>Introduction</a>
<ul class=toc>
<li><a href="#context"><span class=secno>1.1. </span>Background</a>
<li><a href="#placement"><span class=secno>1.2. </span>Module
Interactions</a>
<li><a href="#conventions"><span class=secno>1.3. </span>Document
Conventions</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#processing"><span class=secno>2. </span>Processing of
conditional group rules</a>
<li><a href="#contents-of"><span class=secno>3. </span>Contents of
conditional group rules</a>
<li><a href="#use"><span class=secno>4. </span>Placement of conditional
group rules</a>
<li><a href="#at-media"><span class=secno>5. </span>Media-specific style
sheets: the ‘<code class=css>@media</code>’ rule</a>
<li><a href="#at-supports"><span class=secno>6. </span>Feature queries:
the ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rule</a>
<ul class=toc>
<li><a href="#support-definition"><span class=secno>6.1.
</span>Definition of support</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#apis"><span class=secno>7. </span>APIs</a>
<ul class=toc>
<li><a href="#extentions-to-cssrule-interface"><span class=secno>7.1.
</span> Extensions to the <code>CSSRule</code> interface</a>
<li><a href="#the-cssgroupingrule-interface"><span class=secno>7.2.
</span> The <code>CSSGroupingRule</code> interface</a>
<li><a href="#the-cssconditionrule-interface"><span class=secno>7.3.
</span> The <code>CSSConditionRule</code> interface</a>
<li><a href="#the-cssmediarule-interface"><span class=secno>7.4. </span>
The <code>CSSMediaRule</code> interface</a>
<li><a href="#the-csssupportsrule-interface"><span class=secno>7.5.
</span> The <code>CSSSupportsRule</code> interface</a>
<li><a href="#the-css-interface"><span class=secno>7.6. </span> The
<code>CSS</code> interface, and the <code title="">supports()</code>
function</a>
</ul>
<li class=no-num><a href="#grammar">Grammar</a>
<li><a href="#conformance"><span class=secno>8. </span>Conformance</a>
<ul class=toc>
<li><a href="#base-modules"><span class=secno>8.1. </span>Base
Modules</a>
<li><a href="#conformance-classes"><span class=secno>8.2.
</span>Conformance Classes</a>
<li><a href="#partial"><span class=secno>8.3. </span> Partial
Implementations</a>
<li><a href="#experimental"><span class=secno>8.4. </span>Experimental
Implementations</a>
<li><a href="#cr-exit-criteria"><span class=secno>8.5. </span>CR Exit
Criteria</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#changes"><span class=secno>9. </span> Changes</a>
<li class=no-num><a href="#acknowledgments">Acknowledgments</a>
<li class=no-num><a href="#references">References</a>
<ul class=toc>
<li class=no-num><a href="#normative-references">Normative
references</a>
<li class=no-num><a href="#other-references">Other references</a>
</ul>
<li class=no-num><a href="#index">Index</a>
</ul>
<!--end-toc-->
<h2 id=introduction><span class=secno>1. </span>Introduction</h2>
<h3 id=context><span class=secno>1.1. </span>Background</h3>
<p><em>This section is not normative.</em>
<p><a href="#CSS21" rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a> defines
one type of conditional group rule, the ‘<code
class=css>@media</code>’ rule, and allows only rulesets (not other
@-rules) inside of it. The ‘<code class=css>@media</code>’ rule
provides the ability to have media-specific style sheets, which is also
provided by style sheet linking features such as ‘<code
class=css>@import</code>’ and <code class=html><link></code>. The
restrictions on the contents of ‘<code class=css>@media</code>’ rules
made them less useful; they have forced authors using CSS features
involving @-rules in media-specific style sheets to use separate style
sheets for each medium.
<p>This specification extends the rules for the contents of conditional
group rules to allow other @-rules, which enables authors to combine CSS
features involving @-rules with media specific style sheets within a
single style sheet.
<p>This specification also defines an additional type of conditional group
rule, ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’, to address author and user
requirements.
<p>The ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rule allows CSS to be
conditioned on implementation support for CSS properties and values. This
rule makes it much easier for authors to use new CSS features and provide
good fallback for implementations that do not support those features. This
is particularly important for CSS features that provide new layout
mechanisms, and for other cases where a set of related styles needs to be
conditioned on property support.
<h3 id=placement><span class=secno>1.2. </span>Module Interactions</h3>
<p>This module replaces and extends the ‘<code class=css>@media</code>’
rule feature defined in <a href="#CSS21"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a> section <var>7.2.1</var> and
incorporates the modifications previously made non-normatively by <a
href="#MEDIAQ" rel=biblioentry>[MEDIAQ]<!--{{!MEDIAQ}}--></a> section
<var>1</var>.
<p>Its current definition depends on @-rules defined in <a
href="#CSS3-FONTS" rel=biblioentry>[CSS3-FONTS]<!--{{!CSS3-FONTS}}--></a>
and <a href="#CSS3-ANIMATIONS"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS3-ANIMATIONS]<!--{{!CSS3-ANIMATIONS}}--></a>, but that
dependency is only on the assumption that those modules will advance ahead
of this one. If this module advances faster, then the dependency will be
reversed.
<h3 id=conventions><span class=secno>1.3. </span>Document Conventions</h3>
<p>Conformance requirements are expressed with a combination of descriptive
assertions and RFC 2119 terminology. The key words “MUST”, “MUST
NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”,
“SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in the
normative parts of this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC
2119. However, for readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase
letters in this specification.
<p>All of the text of this specification is normative except sections
explicitly marked as non-normative, examples, and notes. <a
href="#RFC2119" rel=biblioentry>[RFC2119]<!--{{!RFC2119}}--></a>
<p>Examples in this specification are introduced with the words “for
example” or are set apart from the normative text with <code
class=html>class="example"</code>, like this:
<div class=example>
<p>This is an example of an informative example.
</div>
<p>Informative notes begin with the word “Note” and are set apart from
the normative text with <code class=html>class="note"</code>, like this:
<p class=note>Note, this is an informative note.
<h2 id=processing><span class=secno>2. </span>Processing of conditional
group rules</h2>
<p>This specification defines some CSS @-rules, called <dfn
id=conditional-group-rules>conditional group rules</dfn>, that associate a
condition with a group of other CSS rules. These different rules allow
testing different types of conditions, but share common behavior for how
their contents are used when the condition is true and when the condition
is false.
<div class=example>
<p>For example, this rule:
<pre>@media print {
/* hide navigation controls when printing */
#navigation { display: none }
}</pre>
<p>causes a particular CSS rule (making elements with ID "navigation" be
display:none) apply only when the style sheet is used for a print medium.
</div>
<p>Each conditional group rule has a condition, which at any time evaluates
to true or false. When the condition is true, CSS processors
<strong>must</strong> apply the rules inside the group rule as though they
were at the group rule's location; when the condition is false, CSS
processors <strong>must not</strong> apply any of rules inside the group
rule. The current state of the condition does not affect the CSS object
model, in which the contents of the group rule always remain within the
group rule.
<p>This means that when multiple conditional group rules are nested, a rule
inside of both of them applies only when all of the rules' conditions are
true.
<div class=example>For example, with this set of nested rules:
<pre>@media print { // rule (1)
/* hide navigation controls when printing */
#navigation { display: none }
@media (max-width: 12cm) { // rule (2)
/* keep notes in flow when printing to narrow pages */
.note { float: none }
}
}</pre>
the condition of the rule marked (1) is true for print media, and the
condition of the rule marked (2) is true when the width of the display
area (which for print media is the page box) is less than or equal to
12cm. Thus the rule ‘<code class=css>#navigation { display: none
}</code>’ applies whenever this style sheet is applied to print media,
and the rule ‘<code class=css>.note { float: none }</code>’ is applied
only when the style sheet is applied to print media <em>and</em> the width
of the page box is less than or equal to 12 centimeters.</div>
<p>When the condition for a conditional group rule changes, CSS processors
<strong>must</strong> reflect that the rules now apply or no longer apply,
except for properties whose definitions define effects of computed values
that persist past the lifetime of that value (such as for some properties
in <a href="#CSS3-TRANSITIONS"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS3-TRANSITIONS]<!--{{CSS3-TRANSITIONS}}--></a> and <a
href="#CSS3-ANIMATIONS"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS3-ANIMATIONS]<!--{{!CSS3-ANIMATIONS}}--></a>).
<h2 id=contents-of><span class=secno>3. </span>Contents of conditional
group rules</h2>
<p>The syntax of each conditional group rule consists of some syntax
specific to the type of rule followed by a <dfn id=group-rule-body>group
rule body</dfn>, which is a block (pair of braces) containing a sequence
of rules.
<p>A group rule body is allowed to contain rulesets and any @-rules that
are allowed at the top level of a style sheet before and after a ruleset.
This means that @-rules that must occur at the beginning of the style
sheet (such as ‘<code class=css>@charset</code>’, ‘<code
class=css>@import</code>’, and ‘<code class=css>@namespace</code>’
rules) are not allowed inside of conditional group rules. Conditional
group rules can be nested.
<p>In terms of the grammar, this specification defines the following
productions for use in the grammar of conditional group rules:
<pre><dfn id="nested_statement">nested_statement</dfn>
: ruleset | <a
href="#media"><i>media</i></a> | page | font_face_rule | keyframes_rule |
<a
href="#supports_rule"><i>supports_rule</i></a>
;
<dfn
id="group_rule_body">group_rule_body</dfn>
: '{' S* <a
href="#nested_statement"><i>nested_statement</i></a>* '}' S*
;</pre>
<p> in which all the productions are defined in that grammar with the
exception of <code>font_face_rule</code> defined in <a href="#CSS3-FONTS"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS3-FONTS]<!--{{!CSS3-FONTS}}--></a>,
<code>keyframes_rule</code> defined in <a href="#CSS3-ANIMATIONS"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS3-ANIMATIONS]<!--{{!CSS3-ANIMATIONS}}--></a>, and <a
href="#media"><code>media</code></a> and <a
href="#supports_rule"><code>supports_rule</code></a> defined in this
specification.
<p>In general, future CSS specifications that add new @-rules that are not
forbidden to occur after some other types of rules should modify this <a
href="#nested_statement"><code>nested_statement</code></a> production to
keep the grammar accurate.
<p>Style sheets <strong>must not</strong> use rules other than the allowed
ones inside conditional group rules.
<p>CSS processors <strong>must</strong> ignore rules that are not allowed
within a group rule, and <strong>must</strong> handle invalid rules inside
of group rules as described in <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#parsing-errors">section 4.2
(Rules for handling parsing errors)</a>, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#at-rules">section 4.1.5
(At-rules)</a>, and <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#rule-sets">section 4.1.7
(Rule sets, declaration blocks, and selectors)</a> of <a href="#CSS21"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>.
<h2 id=use><span class=secno>4. </span>Placement of conditional group rules</h2>
<p>Conditional group rules are allowed at the top-level of a style sheet,
and inside other conditional group rules. CSS processors
<strong>must</strong> process such rules as <a
href="#processing">described above</a>.
<p>Any rules that are not allowed after a ruleset (e.g., ‘<code
class=css>@charset</code>’, ‘<code class=css>@import</code>’, or
‘<code class=css>@namespace</code>’ rules) are also not allowed after
a conditional group rule. Therefore, style sheets <strong>must
not</strong> place such rules after a conditional group rules, and CSS
processors <strong>must</strong> ignore such rules.
<h2 id=at-media><span class=secno>5. </span>Media-specific style sheets:
the ‘<code class=css>@media</code>’ rule</h2>
<p>The <dfn id=atmedia-rule>‘<code class=css>@media</code>’ rule</dfn>
is a conditional group rule whose condition is a media query. It consists
of the at-keyword ‘<code class=css>@media</code>’ followed by a
(possibly empty) media query list (as defined in <a href="#MEDIAQ"
rel=biblioentry>[MEDIAQ]<!--{{!MEDIAQ}}--></a>), followed by a group rule
body. The condition of the rule is the result of the media query.
<div class=example>
<p>This ‘<code class=css>@media</code>’ rule:
<pre>@media screen and (min-width: 35em),
print and (min-width: 40em) {
#section_navigation { float: left; width: 10em; }
}</pre>
<p>has the condition ‘<code class=css>screen and (min-width: 35em),
print and (min-width: 40em)</code>’, which is true for screen displays
whose viewport is at least 35 times the initial font size and for print
displays whose viewport is at least 40 times the initial font size. When
either of these is true, the condition of the rule is true, and the rule
‘<code class=css>#section_navigation { float: left; width: 10em;
}</code>’ is applied.
</div>
<p>In terms of the grammar, this specification extends the <a
href="#media"><code>media</code></a> production in the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html">Grammar of CSS 2.1</a> (<a
href="#CSS21" rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>, Appendix G)
into:
<pre><dfn id=media>media</dfn>
: MEDIA_SYM S* media_query_list <a
href="#group_rule_body"><i>group_rule_body</i></a>
;</pre>
<p>where the <a href="#group_rule_body"><code>group_rule_body</code></a>
production is defined in this specification, the
<code>media_query_list</code> production is defined in <a href="#MEDIAQ"
rel=biblioentry>[MEDIAQ]<!--{{!MEDIAQ}}--></a>, and the others are defined
in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html">Grammar of CSS
2.1</a> (<a href="#CSS21" rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>,
Appendix G).
<h2 id=at-supports><span class=secno>6. </span>Feature queries: the
‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rule</h2>
<p>The <dfn id=atsupports-rule>‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’
rule</dfn> is a conditional group rule whose condition tests whether the
user agent supports CSS property:value pairs. Authors can use it to write
style sheets that use new features when available but degrade gracefully
when those features are not supported. CSS has existing mechanisms for
graceful degradation, such as ignoring unsupported properties or values,
but these are not always sufficient when large groups of styles need to be
tied to the support for certain features, as is the case for use of new
layout system features.
<p>The syntax of the condition in the ‘<code
class=css>@supports</code>’ rule is slightly more complicated than for
the other conditional group rules (though has some similarities to media
queries) since:
<ul>
<li>negation is needed so that the new-feature styles and the fallback
styles can be separated (within the forward-compatible grammar's rules
for the syntax of @-rules), and not required to override each other
<li>conjunction (and) is needed so that multiple required features can be
tested
<li>disjunction (or) is needed when there are multiple alternative
features for a set of styles, particularly when some of those
alternatives are vendor-prefixed properties or values
</ul>
<p>Therefore, the syntax of the ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rule
allows testing for property:value pairs, and arbitrary conjunctions (and),
disjunctions (or), and negations (not) of them.
<p>This extends the lexical scanner in the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html">Grammar of CSS 2.1</a> (<a
href="#CSS21" rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>, Appendix G) by
adding:
<pre>
@{S}{U}{P}{P}{O}{R}{T}{S} {return <dfn
id="supports_sym">SUPPORTS_SYM</dfn>;}
{O}{R} {return <dfn
id=or>OR</dfn>;}
</pre>
<p>This then extends the grammar in the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html">Grammar of CSS 2.1</a>,
using the lexical scanner there, with the additions of <code><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#syntax">AND</a></code> and
<code><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#syntax">NOT</a></code>
tokens defined in the Media Queries specification <a href="#MEDIAQ"
rel=biblioentry>[MEDIAQ]<!--{{!MEDIAQ}}--></a> and the <a
href="#or"><code>OR</code></a> and <a
href="#supports_sym"><code>SUPPORTS_SYM</code></a> tokens defined above,
and with <code><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization">declaration</a></code>,
<code><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization">any</a></code>,
and <code><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization">unused</a></code>
productions and the <code><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization">FUNCTION</a></code>
token taken from the core syntax of CSS defined in <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization">section 4.1.1
(Tokenization)</a> of <a href="#CSS21"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>, by adding:
<pre><dfn id="supports_rule">supports_rule</dfn>
: <a
href="#supports_sym"><i>SUPPORTS_SYM</i></a> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>* <a
href="#supports_condition"><i>supports_condition</i></a> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>* <a
href="#group_rule_body"><i>group_rule_body</i></a>
;
<dfn
id="supports_condition">supports_condition</dfn>
: <a
href="#supports_negation"><i>supports_negation</i></a> | <a
href="#supports_conjunction"><i>supports_conjunction</i></a> | <a
href="#supports_disjunction"><i>supports_disjunction</i></a> |
<a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><i>supports_condition_in_parens</i></a>
;
<dfn
id="supports_condition_in_parens">supports_condition_in_parens</dfn>
: ( '(' <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>* <a
href="#supports_condition"><i>supports_condition</i></a> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>* ')' ) | <a
href="#supports_declaration_condition"><i>supports_declaration_condition</i></a> |
<a
href="#general_enclosed"><i>general_enclosed</i></a>
;
<dfn
id="supports_negation">supports_negation</dfn>
: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#syntax"><i>NOT</i></a> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>+ <a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><i>supports_condition_in_parens</i></a>
;
<dfn
id="supports_conjunction">supports_conjunction</dfn>
: <a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><i>supports_condition_in_parens</i></a> ( <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>+ <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#syntax"><i>AND</i></a> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>+ <a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><i>supports_condition_in_parens</i></a> )+
;
<dfn
id="supports_disjunction">supports_disjunction</dfn>
: <a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><i>supports_condition_in_parens</i></a> ( <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>+ <a
href="#or"><i>OR</i></a> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>+ <a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><i>supports_condition_in_parens</i></a> )+
;
<dfn
id="supports_declaration_condition">supports_declaration_condition</dfn>
: '(' <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner"><i>S</i></a>* <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization"><i>declaration</i></a> ')'
;
<dfn
id="general_enclosed">general_enclosed</dfn>
: ( <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization"><i>FUNCTION</i></a> | '(' ) ( <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization"><i>any</i></a> | <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization"><i>unused</i></a> )* ')'
;
</pre>
<p> Implementations <strong>must</strong> parse ‘<code
class=css>@supports</code>’ rules based on the above grammar, and when
interpreting the above grammar, <strong>must</strong> match the production
before an <code>|</code> operator in preference to the one after it.
<p> The above grammar is purposely very loose for forwards-compatibility
reasons, since the <a
href="#general_enclosed"><code>general_enclosed</code></a> production
allows for substantial future extensibility. Any ‘<code
class=css>@supports</code>’ rule that does not parse according to the
grammar above (that is, a rule that does not match this loose grammar
which includes the <a
href="#general_enclosed"><code>general_enclosed</code></a> production) is
invalid. Style sheets <strong>must not</strong> use such a rule and
processors <strong>must</strong> ignore such a rule (including all of its
contents).
<p>Each of these grammar terms is associated with a boolean result, as
follows:
<dl>
<dt>supports_condition
<dd> The result is the result of the single child term.
<dt>supports_condition_in_parens
<dd> The result is the result of the single <a
href="#supports_condition"><code>supports_condition</code></a> or <a
href="#supports_declaration_condition"><code>supports_declaration_condition</code></a>
child term.
<dt>supports_negation
<dd> The result is the <em>negation</em> of the result of the <a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><code>supports_condition_in_parens</code></a>
child term.
<dt>supports_conjunction
<dd> The result is true if the result of <em>all</em> of the <a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><code>supports_condition_in_parens</code></a>
child terms is true; otherwise it is false.
<dt>supports_disjunction
<dd> The result is true if the result of <em>any</em> of the <a
href="#supports_condition_in_parens"><code>supports_condition_in_parens</code></a>
child terms is true; otherwise it is false.
<dt>supports_declaration_condition
<dd> The result is whether the CSS processor <a
href="#support-definition">supports</a> the declaration within the
parentheses.
<dt>general_enclosed
<dd> The result is always false. Additionally, style sheets <strong>must
not</strong> write ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rules that
match this grammar production. (In other words, this production exists
only for future extensibility, and is not part of the description of a
valid style sheet in this level of the specification.) <span
class=note>Note that future levels may define functions or other
parenthesized expressions that can evaluate to true.</span>
</dl>
<p>The condition of the ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rule is the
result of the <a
href="#supports_condition"><code>supports_condition</code></a> term that
is a child of the <a href="#supports_rule"><code>supports_rule</code></a>
term.
<div class=example>
<p>For example, the following rule
<pre>@supports ( display: flexbox ) {
body, #navigation, #content { display: flexbox; }
#navigation { background: blue; color: white; }
#article { background: white; color: black; }
}</pre>
<p>applies the rules inside the ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’
rule only when ‘<code class=css>display: flexbox</code>’ is
supported.
</div>
<div class=example>
<p>The following example shows an additional ‘<code
class=css>@supports</code>’ rule that can be used to provide an
alternative for when ‘<code class=css>display: flexbox</code>’ is not
supported:
<pre>@supports not ( display: flexbox ) {
body { width: 100%; height: 100%; background: white; color: black; }
#navigation { width: 25%; }
#article { width: 75%; }
}</pre>
<p>Note that the ‘<code class=property>width</code>’ declarations may
be harmful to the flexbox-based layout, so it is important that they be
present only in the non-flexbox styles.
</div>
<div class=example>
<p>The following example checks for support for the ‘<code
class=property>box-shadow</code>’ property, including checking for
support for vendor-prefixed versions of it. When the support is present,
it specifies both ‘<code class=property>box-shadow</code>’ (with the
prefixed versions) and ‘<code class=property>color</code>’ in a way
what would cause the text to become invisible were ‘<code
class=property>box-shadow</code>’ not supported.
<pre>@supports ( box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black ) or
( -moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black ) or
( -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black ) or
( -o-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black ) {
.outline {
color: white;
-moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black;
-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black;
-o-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black; /* unprefixed last */
}
}</pre>
</div>
<p>To avoid confusion between ‘<code class=css>and</code>’ and ‘<a
href="#or"><code class=css>or</code></a>’, the syntax requires that both
‘<code class=css>and</code>’ and ‘<a href="#or"><code
class=css>or</code></a>’ be specified explicitly (rather than, say,
using commas or spaces for one of them). Likewise, to avoid confusion
caused by precedence rules, the syntax does not allow ‘<code
class=css>and</code>’, ‘<a href="#or"><code
class=css>or</code></a>’, and ‘<code class=css>not</code>’ operators
to be mixed without a layer of parentheses.
<div class=example>
<p>For example, the following rule is not valid:
<pre class=illegal>@supports (transition-property: color) or
(animation-name: foo) and
(transform: rotate(10deg)) {
// ...
}</pre>
<p>Instead, authors must write one of the following:
<pre>@supports ((transition-property: color) or
(animation-name: foo)) and
(transform: rotate(10deg)) {
// ...
}</pre>
<pre>@supports (transition-property: color) or
((animation-name: foo) and
(transform: rotate(10deg))) {
// ...
}</pre>
</div>
<p>Furthermore, whitespace is required after a ‘<code
class=css>not</code>’ and on both sides of an ‘<code
class=css>and</code>’ or ‘<a href="#or"><code
class=css>or</code></a>’.
<p>The declaration being tested must always occur within parentheses, when
it is the only thing in the expression.
<p>
<div class=example>
<p>For example, the following rule is not valid:
<pre class=illegal>@supports display: flexbox {
// ...
}</pre>
<p>Instead, authors must write:
<pre>@supports (display: flexbox) {
// ...
}</pre>
</div>
<p>The syntax allows extra parentheses when they are not needed. This
flexibility is sometimes useful for authors (for example, when commenting
out parts of an expression) and may also be useful for authoring tools.
<div class=example>
<p>For example, authors may write:
<pre>@supports ((display: flexbox)) {
// ...
}</pre>
</div>
<p>A trailing ‘<code class=css>!important</code>’ on a declaration
being tested is allowed, though it won't change the validity of the
declaration.
<div class=example>
<p>For example, the following rule is valid:
<pre>@supports (display: flexbox !important) {
// ...
}</pre>
</div>
<h3 id=support-definition><span class=secno>6.1. </span>Definition of
support</h3>
<p>For forward-compatibility, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#declaration">section 4.1.8
(Declarations and properties)</a> of <a href="#CSS21"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a> defines rules for handling
invalid properties and values. CSS processors that do not implement or
partially implement a specification <strong>must</strong> treat any part
of a value that they do not implement, or do not have a usable level of
support for, as invalid according to this rule for handling invalid
properties and values, and therefore <strong>must</strong> discard the
declaration as a parse error.
<p>A CSS processor is considered to <dfn id=dfn-support>support</dfn> a
declaration (consisting of a property and value) if it accepts that
declaration (rather than discarding it as a parse error). If a processor
does not implement, with a usable level of support, the value given, then
it <strong>must not</strong> accept the declaration or claim support for
it.
<p class=note>Note that properties or values whose support is effectively
disabled by user preferences are still considered as supported by this
definition. For example, if a user has enabled a high-contrast mode that
causes colors to be overridden, the CSS processor is still considered to
support the ‘<code class=property>color</code>’ property even though
declarations of the ‘<code class=property>color</code>’ property may
have no effect. On the other hand, a developer-facing preference whose
purpose is to enable or disable support for an experimental CSS feature
does affect this definition of support.
<p>These rules (and the equivalence between them) allow authors to use
fallback (either in the <a href="#CSS1"
rel=biblioentry>[CSS1]<!--{{CSS1}}--></a> sense of declarations that are
overridden by later declarations or with the new capabilities provided by
the ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’ rule in this specification)
that works correctly for the features implemented. This applies especially
to compound values; implementations must implement all parts of the value
in order to consider the declaration supported, either inside a ruleset or
in the declaration condition of an ‘<code class=css>@supports</code>’
rule.</p>
<!--
<h2 id="at-document">Document queries: the '@document' rule</h2>
<p>The <dfn>'@document' rule</dfn> is a conditional group
rule whose condition depends on the
<a href="#url-of-doc">URL of the document being styled</a>.
This allows style sheets, particularly user style sheets, to have styles
that only apply to a set of pages rather than to all pages using the
style sheet.</p>
<p class="issue">Given that this @-rule is intended primarily for user
style sheets, what should this specification say about its use in author
style sheets? Should it be forbidden? Should use instead be
discouraged? Or should this specification remain neutral on the
topic, since there are valid uses in author style sheets?</p>
<p id="url-of-doc">The <dfn>URL of the document being styled</dfn> is
the URI at which the document is located, excluding any fragment
identifiers. (This means, for example, that HTTP redirects have been
followed.) If the styles are being applied inside a complete document
embedded into the presentation of another (e.g., [[HTML5]]'s <code
class="html">iframe</code>, <code class="html">object</code>, or <code
class="html">img</code> elements), the relevant URI is that of the
frame, not of its container. However, if content from other documents
is mixed in via mechanisms that mix content from one document into
another (e.g., [[SVG11]]'s <code>use</code> element), then the
address of the container document is used.</p>
<p class="note">Note: In [[HTML5]], this is the
<a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/dom.html#documents">document's address</a>
of a document in a
<a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/browsers.html#browsing-context">browsing context</a>.</p>
<div class="issue">What form of normalization is done on URLs and domains
before matching? In particular, this specification needs to describe:
<ul>
<li>what form is used for the <a href="#url-of-doc">URL of the document
being styled</a> (and what has been normalized in that form)</li>
<li>what normalization (if any) happens to the argument of each of the match
functions before the comparison that they describe and</li>
<li>whether the
comparison algorithm used is string comparison or some other URL
comparison algorithm.</li></ul></div>
<p>The '@document' rule's condition is written as a
comma-separated list of <dfn>URL matching functions</dfn>, and the
condition evaluates to true whenever any one of those functions
evaluates to true. The following URL matching functions are
permitted:</p>
<dl>