- From: Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:57:22 -0800
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > I've been looking into scoped stylesheets, and I'm not sure that the way the > spec currently places them in the CSS cascade makes sense. If the intent is > for them to be used for styling a particular subtree, it seems like they > should probably come later than global document sheets in the cascade; > otherwise you can end up with global sheets accidentally overriding scoped > styles, which makes it difficult to really use scoped styles effectively. I've been playing with the experimental implementation in Chrome and I already can say that I got stumped by this at least twice. You have to really play with specificity to get the right results. > > Of course the counterargument could be made that the opposite behavior would > disallow document-global sheets from "fixing up" problems from scoped > styles. > > Perhaps the cascading order should be: > > document normal rules > scoped normal rules > scoped !important rules > document !important rules > > ? > > ccing www-style, but this discussion should probably happen on the htmlwg > list, since that's where scoped styles are defined... > > -Boris >
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