child:hover parent {}

[10 weber]

I would like to use CSS (without JS) to change an element's style when the mouse is over a specific child. This code doe's the opposite (changes the child's style when you mouse over it's parent):

<style type="text/css">#child {color:Black;}#parent:hover #child {color:Blue;}</style><div id="parent">text<div id="child">text</div></div>

How can I effect the parent?

[thescientist]

as far as I know there is no way to go up the tree, only horizontally and vertically downward.edit: through straight CSS, that is

[ShadowMage]

Nope, nothing on w3.org selectors page that goes up the tree.

[10 weber]

Nope, nothing on w3.org selectors page that goes up the tree.

Is there a suggestions form at w3.org? I want to suggest that selector.

[ShadowMage]

Is there a suggestions form at w3.org? I want to suggest that selector.

I'm not sure. I wanted to suggest a selector a while back (can't remember what it was now though ) and I didn't see anything. 'Course I didn't look very hard either.