Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Quick CSS quiz

Filed under: Science and Technology — Daniel Lemire @ 21:49

Given these CSS instructions,


z[x] > a[i] {color: blue;}
z z[x] a {text-decoration: underline;}
z > z a , z z z + a { color: red ;}

what will be the color of the text in the following XML file?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css"
href="test.css"?>
<z><z x="x">
<z />
<a i="x">my text</a>
</z>
</z>

3 Comments »

  1. Without trying it (which would be cheating)… blue?

    Comment by Stephen Downes — 22/8/2008 @ 5:52

  2. ;-)

    Comment by Daniel Lemire — 22/8/2008 @ 6:12

  3. Wow, and I thought I had a good understanding of CSS! I didn’t know you could apply it to XML and I don’t recognize half of that syntax! I am going to guess blue though since the first rule appears to be a more fine grained rule

    Comment by Sean McGrath — 22/8/2008 @ 8:53

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