- From: Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:36:10 +0400
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
06.01.2012, 03:30, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com
> <mtanalin@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>> Writing user stylesheets, we're often forced to add "!important" after value of each property (generally, the proposal should not be limited to user stylesheets though).
>>
>> It would be much more usable and DRY to have at-rule of the same name to prevent redundant multiple "!important" word duplication.
>>
>> For example, currently we write:
>>
>> #statusbar-display {
>> left: 0 !important;
>> right: auto !important;
>> }
>>
>> #statusbar-display .statuspanel-label {
>> border-left-style: none !important;
>> border-right-style: solid !important;
>> }
>>
>> Instead we could wrap the rules to one @important rule, thus avoiding repeating "!important" multiple times:
>>
>> @important {
>> #statusbar-display {
>> left: 0;
>> right: auto;
>> }
>>
>> #statusbar-display .statuspanel-label {
>> border-left-style: none;
>> border-right-style: solid;
>> }
>> }
>
> !important is *almost always* a bad idea in author stylesheets, and I
> don't want to support anything making it more convenient.
!important _is_ used in real world anyway.
> You're right, though, that it's often necessary to put !important on
> every single declaration in user stylesheets. Perhaps we can solve
> this in an easier way. For example, asking browser vendors to support
> two user stylesheets, one of which is processed normally and the other
> which is automatically placed in the user!important level (wherein
> !important wouldn't do anything).
>
> This way you can easily distinguish en-masse between setting your own
> defaults (the use of the normal user level) and overriding the page's
> styles (the use of the user!important level).
>
> ~TJ
Do you mean that we will then be forced to have two separate CSS files?
If so, it would be not as usable as @important rule would be since latter would allow to put all user styles in one stylesheet.
Received on Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:44:26 UTC