Thanks everyone - I had misunderstood the use of underline in the spec as
default.
I hadnt expected that it was necessary to repeat the inherit rules EVEN in
any intermediate containing blocks (see middle class below)
Seems like some kind of single style rule is needed to inherit all of the
containing box rules (inherit:all) or a some kind of rule to ensure the
current rules are inherit by any sibling containers {inherit:siblings}
<STYLE>
.outer
{
display:block;
width:50px;
height:50px;
background-color:red;
}
..middle
{
display:inherit;
width:inherit;
height:inherit;
background-color:inherit;
}
.inner
{
display:inherit;
width:inherit;
height:inherit;
background-color:green;
}
</STYLE>
<div class="outer">
<div class="middle" >
<div class="inner" >
</div>
</div>
</div>
