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Overruling selector?

Sent by Dennis_Thrysøe on 2 November 2004 08:08


Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote:
> Dennis Thrysøe wrote:
> 
>> I need to embed a number of divs in an arbitrary webpage, and have it 
>> look the same.
>>
>> The surrounding webpage can be styled in any way imaginable, use all 
>> kinds of styles, etc.
>>
>> Which would be the best way to ensure that my divs look as I wish?
>>
>> I guess the most obvious way would be to specify values for all 
>> properties, but other previously defined styles may overrule my simple 
>> "div.myclass" selector.
> 
> 
> 
> Do you know what the parent of these divs will be?  

No, unfortunately I don't. My divs must be inserted at arbitrary places 
of arbritrary HTML. But I could add as many divs, as I wish - that would 
seem sort of strange though.

> It would be great if 
> you could get an id in your selector to make it more specific, like 
> "div#main div.myclass".  

But ids must be unique in a document, right? I need to insert several divs.

> If not, you can still add more to your selector 
> to add a bit more weight to it: "html body div.myclass" is more specific 
> than "div.myclass."  This can't guarantee that your styles won't get 
> overridden, but it may help.

Thanks I'll go that way. I'm beginning to think, that what I'm trying to 
do isn't possible at all.

-dennis
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