Hi!
We need to differntiate two things: HTML and CSS.
In HTML all elements may have *more than one class* assigned,
like
<p class="quote poem">
In CSS these may be formatted independently like Ross pointed out:
.quote {text-indent: 3em;}
.poem {text-align: center;}
In CSS: If you do
.quote .poem { text-indent: 3em; text-align: center; }
this means something different:
"elements with class 'poem' *below* elements with class 'quote'"
Note that " " (Space) means something different in HTML and CSS.
So, I believe that my suggestion/commit is perfectly fine.
The best reference I know is [0] (unfortunately mostly in German),
esp. the "Kurzreferenz HTML/CSS".
About browsers not supporting see [1].
Other references below.
Johannes
[0] http://www.selfhtml.org/ (unfortunately mostly in German)
[1] http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=MultipleClasses
[2] http://www.quirksmode.org/css/multipleclasses.html
[3] http://dhtmlkitchen.com/learn/css/multiclass/
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html
Ferdinand Soethe schrieb:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> glad you brought this up as I was playing with the idea of using it as
> well.
>
> And I had the same question marks about browsers not supporting
> it. But I'd use it anyway and expect browsers to live up to standards.
> Especially if there are very few other options to do what you are
> trying to do.
>
> --
> Ferdinand Soethe
>
>
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