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Re: Using ARIA for styling?

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From: Preast, Vanessa
Date: Mar 6, 2017 8:24AM

Thank you to both Jonathan and Patrick!

Best,
Vanessa

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2017 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Using ARIA for styling?

On 06/03/2017 15:13, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
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> That's an excellent idea not only because it saves you having to also
> add/remove an extra class for styling,
[...]

and in my haste to reply to the CSS part I actually overlooked the fact that yes, as Jonathan points out, aria-selected isn't quite what you want. But the CSS part of my advice remains valid, adapted to the correct ARIA of course...

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