- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:17 -0400
- To: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Anton Prowse wrote:
> # The following user style sheet would override the font weight of 'b'
The key word there is "user".
> In particular, I interpret that paragraph as saying that for the HTML
> markup fragment
>
> <font color="green">lorem ipsum</font>
>
> the author style sheet is treated as having the rule set
>
> font[color] { color: attr(color); }
>
> at its start, and that the selector in that rule set has specificity 0.
Yep. That seems like a reasonable interpretation.
> This would mean that a later specified rule set
>
> font[color] { color: orange; }
>
> would win out, being later in the cascade and trivially having equal or
> greater specificity (in fact, it has specificity 11=(0,0,1,1)).
Yes, for an author rule like that.
> But that's not what the example says, so I'm getting something wrong
> somewhere.
The example has a user rule, not an author rule.
-Boris
Received on Friday, 13 March 2009 23:58:52 UTC