> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, k9d wrote:
>
> [...]
>> I think I am confused because while I've been hacking around with CSS for a
>> while and
>> manage to get things done, my understanding of inheritance is poor.
>>
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:55:33 +0300 (EEST), Jukka K. Korpela helpfully suggested:
>
> The understanding of inheritance is generally very poor, and yet people
> manage to do
> useful things with CSS. This isn't just magic. In simple cases, inheritance
> works quite
> intuitively. For example, if you set .product { color: #060; background:
> #fffff0; }
> then things seem to work much like you expect. All the information in a
> product block
> has the color and background you set. Yet, everything you see is actually in
> the
> _inner_ elements, for which you haven't set any colors. By default, they
> inherit their
> parent's color. They don't inherit its background, but it pretty much looks
> like they
> did, since the default for background is transparent.
>
[...]
Then there is the odd exception. I remember being utterly confused
after absorbing this rule (re: color being inherited throughout) when
I discovered this is not true of links.
I learned HTML/CSS four years ago, but sometimes still feel like
a neophyte. Still, don't be discouraged. There are far fewer
exceptions to remember than in learning a natural language. :)
Cordially,
David
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