- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 12:34:25 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Bert Bos wrote:
> Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor writes:
> > I went back and re-read the sections on the cascading order is CSS1 and
> > CSS2, and I'm a little confused.
> >
> > If an author style sheet has the rule ``EM { color: black }'', and
> > the user style sheet has the rule ``P EM { color: white }''. In the case
> > where an EM element is inside a P element, is its content black or white?
> > I thought it'd be white. But after reading the specs I'm not so sure.
>
> It's black.
Oh, Then in my post ``Sove Views on CSS'' I'm wrong about not being able
to override all user selectors. Looks like the W3C is way ahead of me.
But the rest of the post I think contains some good thougs.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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