RE: [css21-selectors] Interpretation of attribute selector

Zack Weinberg [mailto:zweinberg@mozilla.com] on Wednesday, June 02, 2010
11:35 AM wrote:
> "Belov, Charles" <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com> wrote:
> > >    p[style="text-align: justify;"], 
> p[style="text-align:justify;"] {
> > >      text-align: left;
> > >    }
> > > 
> > > This will obviously not work if the @style has more stuf 
> in it, etc, 
> > > but neither did your original selector above.
> > 
> > Alas, it appears not to work at all, producing justified text in 
> > Firefox 3.6.3 Windows, Safari 4 Windows and Internet Explorer 8.
> > 
> > Please see http://www.sfmta.com/cms/testSelectorD.htm .
> 
> You need to add an !important.  (A user style sheet would not 
> need that, but style="..." trumps all normal declarations 
> from document style sheets.)

My bad. Unfortunately, that only fixes it for Firefox and Safari.
Internet Explorer 8 steadfastly remains justified.

Thank you for your assistance.

Charles Belov
SFMTA Webmaster