RE: Inheritance

Wouldn't it also work to just span your style?  Make your stylesheet
with your basic attributes of H1 - H6 defined, then if there's a place
in your document where you want to change them, use SPAN and an inline
style?  This would work with not only H6, but also with all your H's.

Jools

--- "Teri A. Ward" <taw0200(at)eeidf002.ca.boeing.com> wrote:
> Ed sez:
> 
> > >I have some HTML that I want to have the same style as H1, H2 etc.
> except,
> > >say, a different color, or maybe, a little bit different margin,
> for
> > >example.  I don't want to dink with the standard H1, H2, etc.
> > >parameters, so
> > >I thought this would be a good time to inherit (? is that the
> correct term)
> > >the properties of the headers into some new classes for my use.
> > >Can someone
> > >point me to a simple example for doing this?  For example...say I
> wanted to
> > >have a class name MyH6, which had the same style as H6, except the
> text is
> > >white, and the background is blue.  Thanks.
> 
> I'm not positive about this, but I believee that
> you can create a kind of "child" class that's 
> based on a particular element. It will inherit all
> the properties of the main element, and change what
> you specify in the child class. For example:
> 
> H6 	{ font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
> 	  font-weight: bold; 
> 	  color:black; 
> 	  background-color: yellow }
> 	  
> H6.foo { color:white; background-color:blue }
> 
> Like I say, I *think* this will work, but I've
> got one foot out the door and don't have time to
> check it out. Good luck - hope it works for you!
> 
> Teri Anne Ward
> Technical Writer/Web Designer
> Seattle
> 


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