Why doesn't !important work here?

brett

Why doesn't the red color override the gray in this example:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>
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</body>
</html>

Thanks,
Brett

Jul 21 '05 #1

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Steve Pugh

"brett" <ac*****@cygen.com> wrote:

Why doesn't the red color override the gray in this example:
Why should it? !important places the relevant rule higher up in the
cascade, it does not turn off inheritence.
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What horrible code.

strong {color: red; background: white; font-size: larger; font-weight:
normal;}

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Jul 21 '05 #2

Steve Pugh

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote:

"brett" <ac*****@cygen.com> wrote:
Why doesn't the red color override the gray in this example:

Why should it? !important places the relevant rule higher up in the
cascade, it does not turn off inheritence.

I don't mean turn off inheritence, do I? I mean it doesn't create some
sort of super-inheritence.

Steve

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Jul 21 '05 #3

Lauri Raittila

in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, brett wrote:

Why doesn't the red color override the gray in this example:

URL? Browser?

Answer: you tested using broken browser. Important is not even needed. Do
not use transitional with CSS if you ant to get correct results using
broken browsers.
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Jul 21 '05 #4

Christoph Paeper

*Steve Pugh* <st***@pugh.net>:

strong {color: red; background: white; font-size: larger; font-weight:
normal;}

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Or even:

strong {color: red; background: white;
font-weight: normal; font-size: larger;/*Â¹*/}
strong em {text-transform: uppercase;}

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Â¹ It makes sense to order the properties this way in case you would ever
want to change to using the 'font' shorthand.

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Jul 21 '05 #5

Steve Pugh

Christoph Paeper <ch**************@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

strong em {text-transform: uppercase;}

If replicating the original you's need font-style: normal in the em
rule as well.

Steve

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Jul 21 '05 #6

Richard

On 25 Feb 2005 08:22:26 -0800 brett wrote:

Why doesn't the red color override the gray in this example: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head> <body>
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</body>
</html> Thanks,
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<font-color:#FF0000;>

<font-size:4;>

Jul 21 '05 #7

Steve Pugh

"Richard" <An*******@127.001> wrote:

<font-color:#FF0000;>

<font-size:4;>

One out of those three is valid HTML. The other two are some sort of
bizarre melding of HTML and CSS syntax.

Now please explain how your three lines of rubbish pseudo-code is
supposed to help the OP? O

Steve

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Jul 21 '05 #8

Jonathan N. Little

Richard wrote:
<snip>

<font-color:#FF0000;>

<font-size:4;>

Richard

FONT is an old HTML 3.2 tag, depreciated in 4.0 and the syntax was

...

But don't do this! Time to buy a NEW book ... and read it.

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