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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: cascade.src,v 2.15 1998-03-16 15:07:55 howcome Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: cascade.src,v 2.16 1998-03-17 00:37:55 howcome Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance</TITLE>
@@ -220,11 +220,35 @@ value</h3>
 <P>Each property may also have a specified value of 'inherit', which
 means that, for a given element, the property takes the same <a
 href="#actual-value">actual value</a> as the property for the
-element's parent.
+element's parent. The inherited value, which is normally only used as
+a fallback value, can be strengthend by setting 'inherit' explicitly.
 
-<!-- Add an example here. Check out:
+<div class="example"><P>In the example below, the <span
+class="propinst-color">'color'</span> and <span
+class="propinst-background">'background'</span> properties are set on
+the BODY element. On all other elements, the 'color' value will be
+inherited and the background will be transparent. If these rules are
+part of the user's style sheet, black text on a white background will
+be enforced throughout the document.
+
+<PRE>
+   BODY { 
+     color: black !important; 
+     background: white !important;
+   }
+
+   * { 
+     color: inherit !imporatant; 
+     background: transparent;
+   }
+</PRE>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<!-- Add another example?. Check out:
 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/1998JanMar/0054.html
--IJ -->
+-IJ, HWL -->
 
 <H2><a name="at-import">The @import rule</a></h2>
 
@@ -445,6 +469,7 @@ base) gives the specificity.
 Some examples:
 
 <PRE>
+  *             {}  /* a=0 b=0 c=0 -&gt; specificity =   0 */
   LI            {}  /* a=0 b=0 c=1 -&gt; specificity =   1 */
   UL LI         {}  /* a=0 b=0 c=2 -&gt; specificity =   2 */
   UL OL+LI      {}  /* a=0 b=0 c=3 -&gt; specificity =   3 */
@@ -485,7 +510,7 @@ STYLE element because of cascading rule 4.
 than style sheets, for example the FONT element or the "align"
 attribute in HTML. If so, the non-CSS presentational hints must be
 translated to the corresponding CSS rules with specificity equal to
-1. The rules are assumed to be at the start of the author style sheet
+zero. The rules are assumed to be at the start of the author style sheet
 and may be overridden by subsequent style sheet rules.
 
 <div class="note">
@@ -495,6 +520,15 @@ stylistic attributes to coexist with style sheets.
 </em>
 </div>
 
+<div class="note">
+<P><em><strong>Note.</strong>
+In CSS1, the non-CSS presentational hints were given a specificity
+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>
 <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
@@ -507,3 +541,4 @@ sgml-nofill-elements:("pre" "style" "br")
 sgml-live-element-indicator:t
 End:
 -->
+