2013-06-27 9:15, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
Technically, if you wish to have such settings as a global default for your pages, setting
them on <body> rather than <html> is the way to go.
Again, Why?
Because it sets the properties directly on the highest-level element
where they might have some effect, rather than affecting indirectly via
inheritance. Inheritance is the most widely misunderstood concept in CSS
and causes surprises even to those who understand it in principle. And
in practice, inheritance is prevented whenever there is *any* style
sheet that sets a property on an element that would otherwise inherit it.
That is basically the question raised by the OP.
Is it? The question said just "I have no idea what things ought to be
inside the html selector."
> 'Simpler' is not exactly a good or well reasoned argument.
Other things being equal, it is. And in the CSS context, simplicity is a
strong argument, especially here, since it helps to avoid both
conceptual and practical problems.
(I would nitpick on the use of 'px' for font-size, but that is another subject)
It's not nitpicking at all, but indeed another subject, as are other
issues in the settings. The question was which properties should be set
on the <html> element.
Yucca
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