Here you have a nice description of the CSS panel: http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/06/introduction-to-firebug/#fb_css
The crossed out elements are CSS attributes overridden by another one, that should be in the upper part of the panel. A tricky thing when you're debugging CSS is specificity, that can drive you insane. If you want to read something about it take a look at the CSS 2.1 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html Hernán On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:52, TtfnJohn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm getting better at using Firebug but I'm tripping over something > that's suddenly very important to me. > > In the style tab styles appear on the left side showing what appears > to be the calling style sheet. On the right is another stylesheet > name. > > Every once in a while, quite often really, given what I'm working with > I'll see a value on the left crossed out. For the life of me, and > here comes the noob question, I can't figure out what that means. > > Does it mean that the style sheet listed on the right is overriding > the style being called? > > Why this is suddenly imporant to me is that I'm experiencing a > situation where I'm sure one stylesheet is overriding another though > just not where, or which one, or when. I can find the point in the > HTML where that occurs but then I'm stumped because I can't tell what > might be overriding the other though I'm almost sure the information > is in the style tab if I could only read what it's trying to tell me. > If I could it would go some considerable way to resolving it. > > thanks in advance. > > ttfn > > John > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
