- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:42:02 +0100 (BST)
- To: "Braden N. McDaniel" <braden@shadow.net>
- cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>, www-style@w3.org, Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Braden N. McDaniel wrote:
> > > > For example:
> > > >
> > > > P EM { color: red }
> > > > STRONG EM { color: green }
> > > >
> > > > <P> <STRONG> <EM> green </EM> </STRONG> </P>
> > > >
> > > > How can you make an EM in a STRONG be the same color as an EM _not_ in
> > > > a STRONG, without knowing what the colour of an EM not in a strong
> > > > would normally be? You can't.
>
> If a default or user style sheet has a rule like
>
> P:hover { color: blue }
>
> there is *no way* that I can restore P:hover's color to its initial
> behavior, which is for P:hover to effectively inherit its color from P.
The same applies to:
P.hover { color: blue }
...or:
P[hover] { color: blue }
If you don't want the color of P elements to differ when they are being
hovered over then use this:
P, P:hover { color: inherit; }
or
P, P:hover { color: black; }
Where is the problem?
> CSS selectors have no means of representing that kind of inheritance.
> I think there should be such a thing.
It's not 'inheritance' at all, it's a different selector matching the same
element, and thus being overriden by the cascade. I suggest you propose a
syntax, so that we can more clearly see what you are looking for.
--
Ian Hickson
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Received on Thursday, 2 September 1999 15:42:08 UTC