On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Bob Rosenberg wrote: > ... The problem with > the scoring (as you note) is that if the first had one one ul, both > would score 101 and hierarchy in theory need to come into play to > select. If I remember correctly, the order of encounter of the rules > is what ends up getting used as the tie-breaker in the case of > duplicate scores (ie: Either the first or last winning rule). A > better method (at least for tie-breaking if not specificity) is to > use the hierarchy (ie: Which one is included in the range covered by > the other as if they were nested SPANs).
The only hierarchy that comes into play is the order in which the selectors appear in the stylesheet. Given equal specificity (tie- breaker), the last selector (in the structure of the stylesheet) wins. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/