John A. Johnson wrote:

>
> On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> As the browser is not an element in the document tree, the <html>
>> element cannot inherit any properties from it.  It may well
>> acquire them in some other way, but this is not inheritance /qua/
>> inheritance.
>
>
> Isn't it the case that browser defaults show themselves in elements
> unless those elements are told differently by CSS?

Yes, it is, but as I wrote above "this is not inheritance /qua/
>> inheritance".  We are discussing CSS, and within this particular
universe of discourse, "inheritance" has a very specific meaning
(just as "to draw a distinction" has a very specific meaning
when discussing /The Laws of /Form/).  Elements have certain
default renderings which they acquire from the browser, but
they do not /inherit/ those renderings from the browser in
the CSS sense of "inherit".

Philip Taylor
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