Question

Is there a way to make a CSS Selector that matches the following?

All OBJECT elements
  which have a PARAM element inside of them

The selector

OBJECT PARAM

doesn’t work, as it matches the PARAM, not the OBJECT. I’d like to apply { display:none } to the objects; it’s useless to apply that to the PARAMs.

(I’m aware I could pull this off with jQuery – $("object param").closest("object") – and VanillaJS – document.querySelector("object param").closest("object") – but I’m trying to create CSS rules on a page.)

Answer 1

No, what you are looking for would be called a parent selector. CSS has none; they have been proposed multiple times but I know of no existing or forthcoming standard including them. You are correct that you would need to use something like jQuery or use additional class annotations to achieve the effect you want.

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