[css2] Hakon's edits

bert-github · bert-github · commit eb1e2121d218 · 2002-04-23T20:17:51.000Z
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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 2.33 2002-04-22 22:05:21 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: cascade.src,v 2.34 2002-04-23 20:17:51 bbos Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance</TITLE>
@@ -290,16 +290,17 @@ must apply the following sorting order:</p>
       Declarations apply if the associated selector <A
       HREF="selector.html">matches</A> the element in question.
 
-    <LI>
-      The primary sort of the declarations is by weight and origin:  for normal
-      declarations, author style sheets override 
-      user style sheets which override the default style sheet. For
-      <span class="index-def" title="important">"!important"</span>
-      declarations, user style sheets override author style sheets
-      which override the default style sheet.
-      "!important" declaration override normal declarations.
-      An imported style sheet has the same
-      origin as the style sheet that imported it.
+      <!-- HWL 20020423: editorial change to description of weight/origin -->
+
+    <LI>The primary sort of the declarations is by weight (normal or important) and origin (author, user, or user agent). The weight of style sheets, in ascending order, is:
+
+<ol>
+<li>user agent style sheets
+<li>user normal style sheets
+<li>author normal style sheets
+<li>author important style sheets
+<li>user important style sheets
+</ol>
 
     <LI>
       The secondary sort is by <a href="#specificity">specificity</a> 
@@ -335,11 +336,16 @@ declaration.  Both author and user style sheets may contain
 of documents by giving users with special requirements (large
 fonts, color combinations, etc.) control over presentation.
 
+
+<!-- HWL 20020423: removed historical note -->
+
+<!--
 <div class="note"><P>
 <em><strong>Note.</strong>
 This is a semantic change since CSS1. In CSS1, author "!important"
 rules took precedence over user "!important" rules. </em>
 </div>
+-->
 
 <P>Declaring a <span class="index-inst" title="shorthand
 property">shorthand property</span> (e.g., <span
@@ -419,7 +425,7 @@ Some examples:
 &lt;/BODY&gt;
 </PRE>
 
-<P> In the above example, the color of the P element would be
+<P>In the above example, the color of the P element would be
 green. The declaration in the "style" attribute will override the one in
 the STYLE element because of cascading rule 3, since it has a higher
 specificity.
@@ -433,6 +439,17 @@ defined as an "ID" in the source document's DTD.
 
 <H3>Precedence of non-CSS presentational hints</H3> 
 
+<p>If the user agent chooses to honor presentational hints from other
+sources than style sheets, these hints must be given the same weight
+as the user agent's default style sheet.
+
+<div class="note">
+<P><em><strong>Note.</strong>
+Non-CSS presentational hints had a higher weight in CSS2.
+</div>
+
+<!-- HWL 20020423: replaced description of presentational hints -->
+<!--
 <P>The UA may choose to honor presentational hints from other sources
 than style sheets, for example the FONT element or the "align"
 attribute in HTML. If so, the non-CSS presentational hints must be
@@ -454,7 +471,7 @@ equal to 1, not 0. The change is due to the introduction of the
 universal selector, which has a specificity of 0.
 </em>
 </div>
-
+-->
 
 </BODY>
 </html>
