- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 23:10:58 +0100
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
"L. David Baron" wrote: > No browser supports this. > I wrote a test [2] for the current rule, and NGLayout, Opera 3.51, and > MSIE 5.0 beta 2 all fail in the same way, by having the style attribute > override all the time (which is the behavior I want). (Netscape > Navigator 4.5 failed in a strange way.) > > I think the rule should be changed so that the STYLE attribute has a > specificity of 1000, so that it always wins. OK, now re-examine that given the introduction of the inherit value on most properties, and the revision of priorities so that !important stylesheets always win. We specifically want a !important user stylesheet to be able to blow away finely granular styling that the document author set up. -- Chris
Received on Monday, 8 February 1999 17:07:41 UTC