- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:28:47 -0600
- To: WAI HC Working Group <w3c-wai-hc@w3.org>
At 12:15 PM 12/22/97 +1100, Jason White wrote: >For the sake of clarity, I shall illustrate my proposal with an example. >Given the following user style: > >li { color: red ! required } > >and an author's style which provides as follows: > >ol li.abc { color: blue ! important } > >then if there is an ordered list in the document such as: > ><ol> <li class="abc"> This is the first and only item in an ordered list. ></ol> > >the above item will be coloured red, despite the author's declaration. >This is a result of the stipulation, set forth in my previous message, >that the "required" key word should give the user's rule priority over all >of the author's rules, regardless of the specificity of the latter. >Furthermore, as this example makes clear, "required" rules have priority >over the author's "important" rules. > > JRG: What about children and sub classing if you but !required in the BASE selector would any child of BASE then retain the required attribute. If you put in a !required in the H1 selector, would any child of H1 also be forced to use the required selector? Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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