- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 22:21:00 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> Wouldn't that actually mean inherit the value from the parent, rather >> than keep the currently assigned value. I think it would have to be a >> new keyword that just means don't even change whatever value is >> assigned. Maybe 'current' or something along those lines. > > Oops. You are totally correct. If CSS 3 would introduce such a global > keyword I guess the problem is solved. Maybe this could be added to the > CSS3 module: Values and Units[1]? What would be the use case? If you want the current value, wouldn't you just /not/ specify the property? The problem with background-position is that the x and y values cascade together, but this can't be solved with a keyword: the cascade always deals with a property (unless it's a shorthand) as a whole. ~fantasai -- http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/contact
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