- From: Chris Beall <Chris_Beall@prodigy.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:36:17 -0500
- To: "Amaya users" <www-amaya@w3.org>
Scenario: Load page http://pages.prodigy.net/chris_beall/Amaya/Inheritedstyle.html Select the second paragraph (Use F2 so the whole paragraph is selected). Style Show applied style Result: It says "No style rule for this element", which is, literally true, i.e. there is no style rule applied to all <p> elements, of which this is one. BUT, page doc\html\style_sheets\handling_external_css.html, which is the Help for this function, says,"...it's difficult to understand why an element is displayed with that color or these margins, etc. To help the user, Amaya provides a Show applied style command that displays into an external window CSS style properties applied to the first current selected element." In the case shown above, the user is not helped at all, because the style we are looking for is applied as a result of inheritance, and the 'Show applied style' function does not deal with that. I wish the display would contain two sections, the first being the data we see today, and the second, titled "inherited", showing those style properties that this element inherits and where they come from. Inheritance is one of the powerful tools of CSS and is widely used, which makes it likely that the "difficult to understand why" problem often involves an unrecognized inheritance. Providing this information would add value to Amaya as a development tool (not to mention its value for debugging of pages created with less astute tools). Chris Beall
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