- From: Blaine Brodie <bbrodie@savagesoftware.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:28:17 -0700
- To: www-dom@w3.org, cwilso@microsoft.com
>It will remove it. setCssText is setting the _entire_ cssText -
>otherwise,
>it should be called "appendCssText".
Hi Chris,
'appendCssText' is probably a better name, however CSSStyleDeclaration's
setCssText, according to the current description, does not remove any
properties. It is only capable of resetting and appending additional
properties.
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Blaine
>
>
>Should the setCssText method of a CSSRule that contains a style
>declaration [eg. CSSStyleRule] behave similarly to the setCssText of
>CSSStyleDeclaration. I.e can it be used to add CSSValues to the rule's
>internal style declaration. Example:
> styleRule.setCssText("H1 {font-size: 10pt}");
> styleRule.setCssText("H1 {ascent:10}");
>Should the last line remove 'font-size' from the style's internal style
>declaration or will it simply append the 'ascent' value, leaving the
>'font-size' value intact. The latter behavior seems the more reasonable
>solution, but it is not stated in the specification. If the former
>behavior is followed then there will be problems dealing with outstanding
>CSSValues.
Received on Friday, 15 September 2000 16:28:27 UTC