Question

I was trying to refer to the root element w/o using the :root . I am trying that for an old version of browser (IE8).

I just can’t find anything. How could anyone refer to the root element before CSS3 ??

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The root element is always html in HTML and XHTML web documents. So just use

html
{
some style;
}

I am assuming ofcourse that by “refer” you meant “selector” in CSS!

reference

This pseudo-class matches an element that’s the root element of the document. In HTML documents, this selector matches the html element.