of course.  my mistake completely.  remember doing that now of course.
 thanks again

~j



On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:24:17 -0000, Kornel Lesinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hmm.  ok, of course you are right.  My next question is, what writing
> > a declaration like a#id, what is happening?  Certinally don't wanna
> > throw out a "it works so it must be right", since it is obviously not
> > correct - but the question begs to be answered, why does it work?  is
> > that in some way implying display:block?
> 
> Not at all. This is just a selector. It selects element "a" which has id
> equal to "id". Only that.
> 
> Read about selectors:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#id-selectors
> 
> Various selectors may be joined together to select more specific element
> in document.
> 
> #id and a#id basically are the same, because only one element can have
> certain id, BUT each selector has its 'specificity' value which affects
> cascade: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html
> 
> a#id {color: green;}
> #id {color: red;}
> 
> <a id="id"> will be green. Not many webmasters actually know why Cascading
> Style Sheets are cascading :)
> 
> --
> regards, Kornel LesiÅski



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