[css2] Incorporated proposed new meaning of !important.

bert-github · bert-github · commit a74ba2c6aac5 · 1998-03-09T16:22:00.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/cascade.src b/css2/cascade.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: cascade.src,v 2.9 1998-02-24 22:52:37 ijacobs Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: cascade.src,v 2.10 1998-03-09 16:22:00 bbos Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance</TITLE>
@@ -276,13 +276,11 @@ must apply the following algorithm:</p>
       declarations apply, terminate the algorithm.
 
     <LI>
-      Sort the declarations by explicit weight. 
-     <span class="index-inst" title="!override">!override</span>
-     declarations, which may only appear in user style sheets, 
-     carry more weight than "!important" declarations.
-     <span class="index-inst" title="!important">!important</span>
-          declarations carry more weight than normal (unmarked)
-          declarations.
+      Sort the declarations by weight.
+      <span class="index-def" title="important">"!important"</span>
+      declarations in the user's style sheet have more weight than
+      all other declarations.
+
     <LI>
       Sort by origin: the author's style sheets override the user's
       style sheets which override the default style sheet. An imported
@@ -306,10 +304,14 @@ must apply the following algorithm:</p>
 the above steps yields a rule that has a higher weight than the other
 rules that apply to the same element/property combination.
 
-<P> This strategy gives author's style sheets considerably higher
-weight than those of the reader. It is therefore important that the
-User agent gives the user the ability to turn off the influence of a
-certain style sheet, e.g., through a pull-down menu.
+<P>Note that "!important" may occur in author's and UA's style sheets,
+but only has an effect in the user's style sheets.
+
+<P> Apart from the "!important" setting on individual declarations,
+this strategy gives author's style sheets higher weight than those of
+the reader. It is therefore important that the User Agent gives the
+user the ability to turn off the influence of a certain style sheet,
+e.g., through a pull-down menu.
 
 <H3><a name="important-rules">!override and !important rules</a></H3>
 
