[Laszlo-dev] Fwd: specificity oddity

[Benjamin Shine]

I made an example of this to test it in html, and it works in the way  
that is correct according to the spec, but annoying, in Firefox and  
Safari:

http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/branches/coal/test/style/html/ 
specific.html

This fun post seems to reinforce what I think, although it doesn't  
specifically address it.
http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_wars.html

On Aug 16, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Benjamin Shine wrote:

> Adam confirms that I read the spec correctly; just we're sad about  
> what the W3C rules end up meaning.
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Benjamin Shine <ben at laszlosystems.com>
>> Date: August 15, 2006 5:56:27 PM PDT
>>
>> According to the CSS rules of specificity, a selector of
>> #gJoeSr person
>> has specificity = 0,1,1,0, and is more specific than a selector of
>> #gJFK
>> which only has specificity 0,1,0,0.
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>> To get the desired results -- where the #gJFK rule wins -- I have  
>> to do this
>> #gJoeSr #gJFK
>> which has specificity 0,2,00.
>>
>> This troubles me. Intuitively I want #gJFK to be more specific  
>> than "any person who is a descendant of Joe Sr."
>>
>> Am I missing something here?
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity
>>
>> BTW,
>> person #gJFK
>> will have the same specificity (0,1,1,0) as
>> #gJoeSr person (0,1,1,0)
>> so according to the rules in sec 6.4.1, the order in which they're  
>> declared would matter.
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