- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:31:05 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 10/13/2011 08:13 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug wrote: > http://www.w3.org/2011/10/12-css-irc#T16-47-22 > > "RESOLVED: accept TabAtkins and fantasai's proposal such that inherit turns the specified value into the parent's computed value" > > I just realized that this doesn't necessarily make any sense for shorthand properties. In fact, most of chapter 6 seems to > operate under an unstated assumption that each declaration setting a shorthand has been converted to equivalent declarations > for the corresponding longhand properties. > > There is a sentence about how declaring a shorthand to be !important is equivalent to declaring all of its sub-properties to > be !important. Probably there should be similar wording for 'inherit'. I suggest instead stating that unstated assumption so that this all works and we don't have to work out every missing detail. ~fantasai
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