- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:53:37 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Douglas Rand writes: > The reason it isn't clear is that the spec. doesn't ever seem to > make what is (to me) an obvious limitation on rule matching. That > is that the leaf node specified in the selector (in this case just > the single element) must be a match for the element being looked > up. This is stated in [1]: "Find all declarations that apply to the element/property in question. Declarations apply if the selector matches the element in question. If no declarations apply, the inherited value is used." [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#cascading-order (We should probably have defined "match" in the terminology section, but we seem to have the same understanding of the term so I don't believe that's the source of confusion.) Regards, -h&kon H å k o n W i u m L i e howcome@w3.org http://www.w3.org/people/howcome World W i d e Web Consortium
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