Re: , pseudo class

[alias]

L. David Baron wrote:

On Saturday 2002-11-02 11:43 +0000, alias wrote:

a.links:link { color: #000000; background-color: transparent;

This selector matches any a element that is an unvisited link and has
class="links".

<div class="links">
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/";>HTML 4.0 Specification</a>
<p><div class="links"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/";>Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2</a>
</div>

None of these a elements have class="links" on them.  Perhaps you want
the selector ".links :link" (or ".links a:link") instead?  That would
match any unvisited link (or a element that is an unvisited link) that
is a descendant of an element with class="links".

Thanks, as you've mentioned, my problem is I don't understand the inheritance rules for cascading. I'm not sure why, for instance, the
.links { font-size: 12px; }
attribute is inherited by my <a> and <p> tags inside the <div class="links">, without specifying a class in <a> or <p>, but the a.links and p.links attributes don't seem to get inherited.