Re: Styling HTML placeholder attribute

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org> wrote:
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>> The main issue with that is that if authors don't style it but they do style input, the UA stylesheet can't override that with input:not(:completed), similarly to how a UA’s a:hover won't override the author’s a. But a :placeholder pseudo-class has the same issue. I wonder how browsers implementing placeholders with a pseudo-class have solved this. Are they violating the cascade or am I missing something?
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> A UA stylesheet with an 'a:hover' rule defined should override what the author has for the same property in an 'a' rule, because 'a:hover' has more specificity.

No, it's in a weaker origin, so it loses to the author rule before
specificity is even checked.

~TJ