- From: Chris Maden <crism@ora.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 19:54:05 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
[Charles McCathieNevile] > It seems that a solution may be to reexamine the CSS rules. If these > allowed greater weight for reader's rules than those of the author, > and provided a mechanism where a reader could make general > declarations but artificially raise their specificity, the problem > may disappear. > > As an example, if I could declare, in my reader screen styles that > H1 should be color:purple size:massive, and that this declaration > was to be regarded as having the specificity of an H1 with a > particular id and class attribute, it seems that the problem would > go away. I have ignored the problem of author/reader precedence for > the example. But that should be easily soluble. Indeed, it already has been. A rule can be declared as !important, meaning that it takes precedence over everything else, except more specific rules also marked !important. See 7.1.1 of CSS2. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
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