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Posted by Dave White on March 11, 2007, 6:36 pm
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:26:14 +0200, "Jukka K. Korpela"
>Scripsit Dave White:
>
>> When I click on a link the Term and its definition come into view but
>> you can also see other terms and definitions.
>>
>> I would like to highlight the particular term I have selected.
>
>That's a natural idea, but there's really no way to implement it in HTML or
>CSS. One might think that the destination anchor is "active" at that point,
>but current browsers don't interpret the :active pseudo-class in CSS that
>way.
>
>On the other hand, normally the destination anchor is positioned at the top
>of the canvas ("top of window", loosely speaking), unless it is near the end
>of the page. Usually people learn to recognize the top of the canvas as the
>place to which the link refers, but admittedly the situation is not clear at
>all.
>
>I guess this is one of the reasons for splitting, say, a definition list
>into a collection of pages, with a single definition on a page.
Thanks for your input. It would be a nice feature but I can certainly
live without it.
A single definition on a page might be worth it in the long run.
Thanks again,
Dave White
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