Inheritance?

From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@Adobe.COM> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:23:06 -0400 Message-Id: <v04101b01b2359237c232@[130.248.25.15]> To: www-style@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 27 April 2009 13:53:56 GMT

Given a style declaration of:

	<STYLE type="text/css">
	<!--
		.dynamic-style {text-indent : 24px}
	-->
	</STYLE>

Why does this NOT work?
	<P class="dynamic-style"><SPAN>standard paragraph with a first line 
indent</SPAN></P>

and this does?
	<P><SPAN class="dynamic-style">standard paragraph with a first line 
indent</SPAN></P>

I would think that they would be equivalent since the class of the <P> 
should be carried onto the <SPAN>.  Or is this just another bug in the 
browsers?

Leonard
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