Re: why don't BODY style attributes get inherited by tables?

by "Lois Wakeman" <lois(at)lois.co.uk>

Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:22:55 +0100
To:	<hwg-style(at)mail.hwg.org>
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Bennett,

What you say at the beginning of your message is essentially correct.

Usually, IE and Opera regard TABLE as a child of BODY, and this has been my
experience of inheritance - imagine all the 'boxes' for block elements
nested inside one another, and that gives you a good mental model to work
with.

NS4 falls down - it often forgets to reset the body font at the end of a
table for example, which is why style sheets need multiple selectors for
fonts when just one on body should do.

I couldn't follow your quoted sample to see if there was an obvious
problem - somewhere along the line, something has encoded all the special
characters:

&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&lt;html&gt;<br>
&lt;head&gt;<br>
<br>
&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;<br>
<br>
BODY {<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>font-size
: 15pt;<br>

HTH,

Lois Wakeman

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>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:11:41 -0700
>From: Bennett Haselton <bennett(at)peacefire.org>
>Subject: why don't BODY style attributes get inherited by tables?

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