On 5/6/21 12:36 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 07:07:28PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
It seems wrong to include inline css in generated html files,
especially when using the --ccs-ref or -C INFO_JS_DIR options.
The documentation is complicated. The advice to use !important
to override the default style rules feels quite wrong-headed.
Is this causing a practical problem? Can you not override the
inline CSS with a referenced CSS file?
Yes, I can override a specific rule. However,
it makes priority order of the various rules a bit fragile.
It also makes it difficult to add to or edit the default rules
as it may interact with user css rules in hard-to-anticipate ways.
Plus it clutters up the HTML with stuff thet doesn't belong there.
If/when we add an option to generate xml/xhtml (as needed for epub)
then the default rules will be inside an XML comment and hence
ignored. It seems fragile if the appearance of a document
depends on whether it is html or xhtml.
I don't know where the advice to use !important comes from
as I couldn't find this in the manual anywhere.
Search for '! important' (with a space after the '!') in
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/HTML-CSS.html
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--Per Bothner
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