Well, you learn something new every day. I knew an id had preference over a class, I just assumed since I specified the class which was nested inside, that I would be good. Makes the style sheet a bit uglier, but that works.
Thanks -- Jeff ---------------------------------------- From: "Tom Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [css-d] Weird inheritance issue? On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:23:57 -0400, Jeff Chastain wrote: > When I do this, all three blocks still have a red border. The weird > thing is that if I change the 'class="photoBlock'" to 'id="photoBlock"' > and update the styles accordingly, > I have red and blue blocks. Why does this not work for a class, but > will work for an id (which I can't use as there are multiple > 'photoBlock's)? IIRC, ID has higher specifity than class. So it rules. Did you try: #container .photoBlock .crWrapper { border: 1px solid #00f; } HTH -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/