- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:19:14 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: "E. Stephen Mack" <estephen@emf.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
E. Stephen Mack writes:
> The CSS1 spec defines a "rule" as "a declaration and its
> selector."
>
> So, given this style sheet:
>
> H1, H2, H3: { color: white; background: blue; }
>
> is that one rule, two rules, three rules, or six rules?
(minor point, the first colon should be omitted in the above example:
H1, H1, H3 { color: white; background: blue; }
We're here looking at six rules that have been grouped with the
selector grouping mechanism (commas) and the declaration grouping
mechanism (semi-colons).
> I'm fairly new to style sheets and in reading through the spec,
> I couldn't determine from the section on grouping or from
> context what the correct answer is.
Noted, thanks.
> I'm also stunned by how wildly different a style sheet
> can be interpreted by Navigator 4.01, IE 3.02, and IE 4.0 platform
> preview 2 on my Windows 95 system.
This is indeed a concern and some people have proposed temporary
reliefs [1] until implementations are aligned.
[1] http://www.verso.com/agitprop/css/
Regards,
-h&kon
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