[css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Reese
I'm having trouble with a moderately extensive site which has only a rudimentary implementation of CSS. This is the CSS coding relevant to my question: 4. 5. a { 6. color: #99; 7. text-decoration: underline; 8. font: bold 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 9. } 10.

Re: [css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Reese
At 12:40 12-07-05, Sebastian Redl wrote: You can check your style sheet carefully for syntax errors that would make the UA ignore your styles, because as you have them now, they're correct and should override the earlier styles. That's what I thought. Rebooting seemed to help, now I can make

Re: [css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Smith, Sarah
The O'Reilly CSS Pocket Reference by Eric Meyer states: This is a shorthand property used to set two or more aspects of an element's font all at once. It can also be used to set the element's font to match an aspect of the user's computing environment using keywords such as icon. Note that if

Re: [css-d] Specificity question - FIXED

2005-07-12 Thread Reese
At 14:44 12-07-05, Smith, Sarah wrote: If I understand what he's saying, if you throw in font size and family, such as font: italic 900 100% verdana; it works (for me). You probably don't want to specify that every time, so maybe shorthand isn't the solution in this case. A ha. Thank you for

Re: [css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Adam Kuehn
Reese wrote: I'm having trouble with a moderately extensive site which has only a rudimentary implementation of CSS. This is the CSS coding relevant to my question: 4. 5. a { 6. color: #99; 7. text-decoration: underline; 8. font: bold 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;