- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:46:16 -0500
- To: Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Felix Miata wrote: > I have no problem with his explanation of how cascade is supposed to > work. My problem is he fails to reconcile it with the plain language of > 15.7 that clearly says ALL values are FIRST reset, which to me clearly > means font-size is set to medium (in the 'font-size' list above > "Percentages") That's correct. It is. > a size that is ostensibly immune to font-size > inheritance of author and user stylesheet sizing. Correct. > Once reset is > performed, medium should stand in the stead of the value from the > parent. Aha! Here's the problem. The value from the parent is only looked at when determining the _computed_ value of font-size. We haven't gotten that far yet. We're still determining the specified value. The specified value is "medium" after the reset, then gets specified to something (70% in your case) by the font shorthand. > nominal familiarity with and comprehension of 6.2 & 6.4 The section you want is 6.1. See especially section 6.1.1. Note that it talks about going through the _whole_ cascade first. -Boris
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