Re: Is this an MSIE bug? from David Perrell on 1996-11-01 (www-html@w3.org from October 1996)

From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:45:56 -0800
To: "Tom Schlarman" <tschlarm@Adobe.COM>, <www-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <199611010047.QAA02605@germany.it.earthlink.net>

Tom Schlarman wrote:
> The text in the above example ends up in 12pt TNR.  Shouldn't the
<FONT>
> tag override the values set by the CLASS attribute.

I thought the precedence was:

   1. Inline style markup

   2. Stylesheet

   3. Standard HTML

Style takes precedence over standard HTML markup, and inline style
allows you to override the stylesheet.

If <FONT> overrides inline style, seems like a bug to me.

David Perrell

Received on Thursday, 31 October 1996 20:48:55 UTC