[css2] introduced an ordering in the anchor pseudo-classes

howcom · howcom · commit a580c7a65694 · 1998-01-28T09:06:54.000Z
added index entries for all of them

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diff --git a/css2/selector.src b/css2/selector.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN'>
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: selector.src,v 1.52 1998-01-28 06:42:00 ijacobs Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: selector.src,v 1.53 1998-01-28 09:06:54 howcome Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>Selectors</title>
@@ -907,12 +907,12 @@ descend from A elements that have not yet been visited:</p>
 </pre>
 </div>
 
-<h3><a name="anchor-pseudo-classes">Anchor pseudo-classes</a>:
-<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::link|:link">:link,</span>
-<span class="index-def"
-title="pseudo-classes:::active|:active">:active,</span>
-<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::visited|:visited">:visited</span>, and
-<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes, :hover|:hover">:hover</span>
+<h3><a name="anchor-pseudo-classes">The Anchor pseudo-classes</a>:
+<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::link|:link|'link' pseudo-class">:link</span>,
+
+<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::visited|:visited|'visited' pseudo-class">:visited</span>,
+<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::hover|:hover|'hover' pseudo-class">:hover</span>, and
+<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::active|:active|'active' pseudo-class">:active</span>
 </h3>
 
 <p>User agents commonly display unvisited links differently from
@@ -923,6 +923,11 @@ of a link in one of several states:</p>
 <li> The :link pseudo-class applies for links that have
 not yet been visited.
 
+<li> The :visited pseudo-class applies once the link has been
+visited by the user. <strong>Note.</strong>
+After a certain amount of time, user agents may choose to 
+return a visited link to the (unvisited) 'link' state.
+
 <li> The :hover pseudo-class applies when the user designates, but
 does not activate, a link. For example, a visual user agent could
 apply this pseudo-class when the cursor hovers over an element. [or,
@@ -931,33 +936,31 @@ in our terminology, do cursors only hover over boxes? -howcome]
 <li> The :active pseudo-class applies while the link is being
 activated by the user.
 
-<li> The :visited pseudo-class applies once the link has been
-visited by the user. <strong>Note.</strong>
-After a certain amount of time, user agents may choose to 
-return a visited link to the (unvisited) 'link' state.
-
 </ul>
 
-<P>The four states are mutually exclusive.
-
-<pre>
-  A:link { color: red }       /* unvisited links */
-  A:active { color: lime }    /* active links    */
-  A:visited { color: blue }   /* visited links   */
-  A:hover { color: yellow }   /* user hovers     */
-</pre>
-
+<P>The four states are mutually exclusive. If a link qualifies for
+several states, the order of preference is: active, hover, visited,
+link.
 
-<p>User agents are not required to reformat a currently displayed
+<p>User agents are not required to reflow a currently displayed
 document due to anchor pseudo-class transitions. For instance, a style
 sheet may legally specify that the <span
 class="propinst-font-size">'font-size'</span> of an :active link
 should be larger that a :visited link, but the UA is not required to
-dynamically reformat the document when the reader selects the
+dynamically reflow the document when the reader selects the
 :visited link.</p>
 
 <div class="example"><p>
-In HTML, the following two CSS2 declarations are equivalent and
+
+<pre>
+  A:link { color: red }       /* unvisited links */
+  A:visited { color: blue }   /* visited links   */
+  A:hover { color: yellow }   /* user hovers     */
+  A:active { color: lime }    /* active links    */
+</pre>
+
+
+<p>In HTML, the following two CSS2 declarations are equivalent and
 select the same elements:</p>
 
 <pre>
