[css2] Rewrote example with default attribute to use fantasai's text.

bert-github · bert-github · commit fe00b7d9ddb7 · 2004-03-08T18:39:12.000Z
Rewrote sentence about position of fictional tag.

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diff --git a/css2/selector.src b/css2/selector.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN'>
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: selector.src,v 2.88 2004-02-09 21:47:46 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: selector.src,v 2.89 2004-03-08 18:39:12 bbos Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>Selectors</title>
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ DTD.)
 external subsets.
 
 <div class="example">
+<P style="display:none">Example:</P>
 <P>For example, consider an element EXAMPLE with an attribute "notation"
 that has a default value of "decimal". The DTD fragment might be
 
@@ -465,21 +466,25 @@ that has a default value of "decimal". The DTD fragment might be
 
 <pre class="example">
 EXAMPLE[notation=decimal] { /*... default property settings ...*/ }
-EXAMPLE[notation=octal] { /*... other settings...*/ }
+EXAMPLE[notation=octal]   { /*... other settings...*/ }
 </pre>
 
-<p>then to catch the cases where this attribute is set by default,
-and not explicitly, the following rule might be added:
+<p>the first rule will not match elements whose "notation" attribute
+is set by default, i.e. not set explicitly. To catch all cases, the
+attribute selector for the default value must be dropped:</p>
 
 <pre class="example">
-EXAMPLE { /*... default property settings ...*/ }
+EXAMPLE                   { /*... default property settings ...*/ }
+EXAMPLE[notation=octal]   { /*... other settings...*/ }
 </pre>
 
-<p>Because this selector is less 
-<a href="cascade.html#specificity">
-specific</a> than an attribute selector, it will only be used for the
-default case. Care has to be taken that all other attribute values
-that don't get the same style as the default are explicitly covered.
+<p>Here, because the selector <code>EXAMPLE[notation=octal]</code> is
+more <a href="cascade.html#specificity">specific</a> than the tag
+selector alone, the style declarations in the second rule will override
+those in the first for elements that have a "notation" attribute value
+of "octal". Care has to be taken that all property declarations that
+are to apply only to the default case are overridden in the non-default
+cases' style rules.
 </div>
 
 
@@ -1095,11 +1100,11 @@ the line "Hello".
 (assuming the default style for BR in HTML 4.0). The word "First" is
 not on the first formatted line.
 
-<p>A UA should act as if the fictional start tag of the first-line
-pseudo-element is just inside the innermost enclosing block-level
-element. (Since CSS1 and CSS2 were silent on this case, authors
-should not rely on this behavior.) Here is an example. The fictional
-tag sequence for
+<p>A UA should act as if the fictional start tags of the first-line
+pseudo-elements were nested just inside the innermost enclosing
+block-level element. (Since CSS1 and CSS2 were silent on this case,
+authors should not rely on this behavior.) Here is an example. The
+fictional tag sequence for
 
 <pre>
 &lt;DIV>
