Hello, all! I hope some enthusiastic oXygen user can point me to how in CSS I can obtain a value from an element other than the element matching the CSS selector. This is a fragment of my CSS: frame { display:block; counter-reset:pane_count; } frame > title{ font-size: 2.0em; border-bottom: 1px solid #004477; } frame > title:before{ content: "Frame " counter(lesson_count) "." counter(frame_count) ": "; counter-increment: frame_count; } frame > title:after { font-size:.5em; color:green; content: attr(id); } At the very end I am exposing the @id, but my selector is in frame's title and the attribute I need to expose is in the parent frame element. I couldn't say attr(../@id) and I couldn't find a way of storing attr(id) in a variable in the frame's selector. A second problem is to expose different content with different appearances using one selector. I tried the following without success: frame > title:before{ content: "Frame " counter(lesson_count) "." counter(frame_count) ": "; /*content: "Frame " counter(module_count) "." counter(lesson_count) "." counter(frame_count) ": ";*/ counter-increment: frame_count; } frame > title:before { font-size:.5em; color:green; content: "XXX"; } ... because only the second selector was selected. I'll fix the "XXX" when I fix the attr() problem stated earlier. Any guidance on either of these two topics would be greatly appreciated! . . . . . . . . Ken -- Public XSLT, XSL-FO, UBL & code list classes: Melbourne, AU May 2014 | Contact us for world-wide XML consulting and instructor-led training | Free 5-hour lecture: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/udemy.htm | Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/m/ | G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com | Google+ profile: https://plus.google.com/116832879756988317389/about | Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal |