Parent selector — Edward O’Connor

Andy Budd wants a parent selector in CSS3. Sounds good to me! I prefer the syntax given in one of his comments:

#child < .parent {…}

Update: Dylan Schiemann proposed this syntax back in 2000.

Update, May 2008: This sort of thing has popped up again, this time in Shaun Inman’s CSS Qualified Selectors. John Resig even implemented it for jQuery.

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Rights: Copyright © 2006 Edward O’Connor. Some rights reserved (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Comments

I proposed this exact syntax for css parent selectors back in 2000 (and maybe others before me did so as well).

— Dylan Schiemann, 23 January 2006
Thanks Dylan; I've updated the post to reflect that.

— hober, 23 January 2006