Re: Specificity and conflicting selectors

* <Yael.Aharon@nokia.com> wrote:
>I have a question about how to handle selectors that have conflicting meaning.
>The background for this question is a webkit bug https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52511 .
>In that bug, the "right" selector has a higher specificity than the "left"
>selector, yet all major browsers ignore the "right" selector and display the
>image on the left side.

With

  #comments img {
    position: absolute;
    left: 10px;
  }
  .rtl #comments img {
    right: 10px;
  }

The img ends up with

    position: absolute;
    left: 10px;
    right: 10px;

As both selectors match the img element. The commenter seems to expect
the `left: 10px;` to be ignored (so it is treated like `left: auto;`),
but that is conflict with expecting absolute positioning to occur, as
if `left: 10px;` is ignored then `position: absolute;` would be ignored
aswell, so I don't understand the confusion there.

What it means to specify both 'left' and 'right' with values other than
`auto` is defined in the CSS specifications. Note that 'left', 'right',
and 'position' are property names, `#comments img` would be a selector.
"Specifity" is something selectors have, but properties do not have that
as well-defined concept.
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Received on Friday, 15 April 2011 14:15:23 UTC