- From: Hakon Lie <Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 16:21:03 +0100
- To: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Cc: Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr (Hakon Lie), www-style@w3.org
lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk writes:
> > > Someone who personally hates strike-through but their device supports it
> > > has no option but to live with it. Their style sheet cannot over-ride
> > > yours. You have removed freedom of choice from the reader by not naming
> > > the distinctiveness of your para 14
> >
> > No. In CSS, the reader can supply a personal style sheet and by
> > labelling declarations as "important", they will override the author's
> > style, including STYLE attributes.
>
> Could you elaborate exactly how that works? I don't see how the
> readers style sheet can influence the presentation of an un-named
> ad-hoc peice of stylesheet on an individual element.
Incoming document:
..
<P STYLE="text-decoration: underline">underlined text</P>
..
The UA would display the paragraph underlined until someting like this
is found in the reader's personal style sheet:
P { text-decoration: none !important }
To learn more about why and when rules override each other, see [1].
[1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-css1-951123.html#cascading
Regards,
-h&kon
Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
http://www.w3.org/People/howcome howcome@w3.org
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