> -----Original Message-----
> From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-
> discuss.org] On Behalf Of Ian Piper
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 7:30 AM
> To: css-d css-d
> Subject: [css-d] Is a missing ";" OK?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am building on a style sheet for a Drupal website. I have noticed
> that in the styles.css file for the theme many of the styles have no
> ";" at the end of the line. This seems mostly to be where there is
> more than one line between the braces, like so:
>
>
> #primarylinks a:hover {
> background:#7d9eac;
> text-decoration:none
> }
>
> I had always thought that the terminating ";" was mandatory. Can
> someone advise me?
It is not mandatory, but if the last declaration is skipped for some reason
then Safari 2 could not recover and drop most of the stylesheet (depending
where the rule is).
For example:
#primarylinks a:hover {
background:#7d9eac;
text-decoration:none;
_text-decoration:underline
}
--
Regards,
Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com
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