- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:49:58 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Kevin,
similarly
body * {
has literally no effect due to specificity rules.
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 1 Jun 2006, at 13:09, Kevin Lawver wrote:
You'd need to do:
body * {
background:#000 !important;
color:#fff !important;
}
to do what you're intending.
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On Jun 1, 2006, at 7:16 AM, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
>
> Re: specificity and user style sheets
>
> bjoern and stanimir,
>
>
> thank you for your response, however the use of ! makes almost no
> difference due to "specificity" as per my previous email
> for instance visit http://www.peepo.co.uk/mybbc or http://
> www.bbc.co.uk
>
> >>whilst there expectation might be that this would provide a
> universal solution to their reading difficulties, in reality it
> achieves almost nothing due to the approach to specificity taken by
> the WG.
>
> again apologies if I am missing something due to ignorance..
>
> regards
>
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd
>
Received on Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:50:09 UTC