What the CSS? - Hackdot

Re:What the CSS? by jamescostian on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:43PM (#14260878)

I'm immensely confused by this: `It's totally ok to write class="75%" if you define it as .\35 0\%{} in CSS.` How is this:

    .\35 0\%{}

turned into "75%"? It looks more like it would turn into "50%". Why is there a space after the 5 (wouldn't that mean you're finished talking about the class and have moved on to explaining a descendent element?) and what does \3 mean?

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Re:What the CSS? by gvb on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:48PM (#14261272)

This explains CSS escaping pretty well: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-escapes

\37 is the escaped hexadecimal number 0x37 == the ASCII character '7'

The whitespace after the escaped character is "eaten" (the whitespace indicates the end of the escape sequence)

0 is '0'

\% is '%'

(update: fixed \37 == '7')

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Re:What the CSS? by jamescostian on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:25PM (#14261723)

Thank you!

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