Can you style XHTML elements in another namespace using id and class name css selectors?

Question

I\'m developing an application that uses ubiquity-xforms. Previously I had been serving the pages up as text/html with the XHTML 1.0 doctype.

If I switched the mime-

Answer 1

You don't have to use #id/.class selectors. Instead you can use:

[id=test] {}
[class|=testing] {}

which are equivalent.

AFAIK class is HTML-specific thing, and because XML namespaces are completely insane, XHTML attributes aren't in the XHTML namespace! You're probably out of luck with this one.

For ID you might try xml:id, but I haven't checked if anything actually supports it.

In case you wanted to match namespaced elements, that's possible with CSS Namespaces:

@namespace xf "http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms";
xf|group {}