Re: [WSG] Question of CSS specificity
Barrie North wrote: I need some help, what is the difference between: table.module At 07:45 PM 3/5/2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Specificity: 0,0,1,1 To see where Lachlan is getting these numbers, read: 6.4.3 Calculating a selector's specificity http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity Both that page (6 Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance) and the previous one (5 Selectors) make for pretty interesting reading. I think everyone working with CSS should read the whole spec at least once. I refer back to it once or twice a week to refresh my memory on specific points. Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 CSS 2.1 Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ Regards, Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Question of CSS specificity
.module will apply to any element with class=module, table.module will only apply to table elements. That's about it :) No doubt there's some deeper meaning that I've not yet heard, of course... ;) -- --- http://www.200ok.com.au/ --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Question of CSS specificity
table.module will only apply the style to a table with class=module on it. .module will apply the style regardless of what element the class is on. a.contentpagetitle:link will apply the style to any a tags with a .contentpagetitle class on them that is a link. .contentpagetitle a:link will apply the style to any elements INSIDE .contentpagetitle that are a link. Barrie North wrote: Hi all, I need some help, what is the difference between: table.module and .module Is table.module just more specific or is there more going on? Similar question between: a.contentpagetitle:link and .contentpagetitle a:link Thanks in advance, Barrie North www.compassdesigns.net http://www.compassdesigns.net/ www.joomlashack.com http://www.joomlashack.com/ (802) 428-4146 Skype:compassdesign ~Professional Joomla Web Design~ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Question of CSS specificity
Barrie North wrote: I need some help, what is the difference between: table.module Specificity: 0,0,1,1 and .module Specificity: 0,0,1,0 Is table.module just more specific or is there more going on? The former will only select tables with the class name module. The latter will select any element with the class name module. e.g. table class=module p class=module div class=module em class=module They will all be selected by .module, but only the table will be selected by table.module Similar question between: a.contentpagetitle:link Specificity: 0,0,2,1 That will select a href=# class=contentpagetitlelink/a and .contentpagetitle a:link Specificity is the same, but will select differently: p class=contentpagetitle a href=#link/a /p (The p element could be any ancestor element) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
