- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:34:00 +0100 (MET)
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Cc: w3c-wai-hc@w3.org (HC team)
Al Gilman writes: > > 'Option 1' I take to be that which changes the definition of > > !important; so that it only has effect when used within a > > reader's style sheet (any use of !important; in an author's > > style sheet would thus be ignored, and the author's rules would > > all have normal weight, thereby giving precedence to the > > reader's explicitly important rules). This is the option which > > I prefer. > > Is it really necessary to nullify all use of !important by the author? > Would it be sufficient if > > a) a !important asserted by the user beats a !important > asserted before the document got to the user. I don't see the difference. In both cases the cascade order will be: user important author important author normal user normal > b) a !important beats any level of specificity. It already does. Check cascade rule #2 vs #4 in [1] [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#cascading-order > ?? no? Regards, -h&kon H å k o n W i u m L i e howcome@w3.org http://www.w3.org/people/howcome World W i d e Web Consortium
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