[kagamine]

Thanks for the comprehensive reply and correction.

As I noted in my comment the area in which a parent selector would be of use was in a framework where I don't always have access to the parent tag where I could add a class or ID to the html. The way around this, because we got it fixed finally, was not to wish for a css solution but was in fact to have the authors of the framework create a fix inside the framework itself; where the limitation actually occurred. It's of little significance to you perhaps, but it is a point worth noting that the solution lay in fixing the right thing and not adding ill-advised functionality to the wrong thing.

Also, thanks to you and your collegues for your work, especially flexbox, I like CSS a lot (I know it gets a lot of criticism) and I believe it is what it should be.