Chris wrote:
> Hi, apologies for another post but I think a simpler example below is what is
> needed.
> I have obviously failed to understand a crucial aspect of CSS which deems
> that the table row style declaration does not overwrite the previous style
> for a specific cell within that row. Please enlighten me!
Hey Chris,
Specificity only comes into play when assigning more than one rule to
the same element.
In your example, you assigned a colour to a tr and a different colour to
a td. No matter how specific you make the tr rule, even if you use
!important, it won't be inherited by #one because #one has it's own
declaration.
If, on the other hand, you were doing the following:
table #one {background: purple;}
#one {background: blue;}
you'll find that #one is purple, because the first rule is more specific.
Hope this helps,
Jesse Skinner
www.thefutureoftheweb.com
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