Cascade and selectors

Sent by Jon Prindiville on 7 February 2005 17:05

Jared Stein [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
> Now, this doesn't work:
> 
> <style type="text/css">
>         #nav li { border: 1px solid #000 }
>         #home { border-bottom: none }
> </style>
[snip]
> But this does:
> 
> <style type="text/css">
>         #nav li { border: 1px solid #000 }
>         li#home { border-bottom: none }
> </style>

I could be mistaken, but it looks to me like in the first snippet you
posted the #home rule is not applied because while both rules match
the target, but the first is more specific. Check the CSS spec. on
this issue [1],

Jon

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#cascading-order
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Message thread:

• Cascade and selectors - Jared Stein, 7th February 2005 17:28
  • Cascade and selectors - Jon Prindiville, 7th February 2005 17:43
    • Cascade and selectors - Jukka K. Korpela, 7th February 2005 18:32
  • Cascade and selectors - Joel Goldstick, 7th February 2005 18:34
    • Cascade and selectors - Michael Landis, 7th February 2005 19:24
      • Cascade and selectors - Joel Goldstick, 7th February 2005 20:11
        • Cascade and selectors - Michael Landis, 7th February 2005 20:42
  • Cascade and selectors - Jens Brueckmann, 7th February 2005 18:36

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