Re: pseudo-elements and *

On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> 
> By the way,  the two following rules should also make the first line
> black, according to cascading order and specificity computation rules :
> 
> P::first-line { color :red }
> P { color : black }

No, because the ::first-line pseudo-element is only matched by the first,
not the second. So the second takes precedence.


> It suggests that pseudo-elements have an impact on specificity...

This is actually unrelated, but they do (pseudo-elements have a
specificity of 001).

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