Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] CSS Question [SOLVED]

[Richard L. <ce...@l-...>]

On Thu, August 16, 2007 12:28 pm, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Can anybody tell me WHY in this page:
>
> http://www.l-i-e.com/css/mailto.php.htm
>
> The TEXTAREA is having all these #xxx_xxx_form styles applied, while
> the INPUTs are not?
>
> At least, according to firebug, it is.
>
> And, in Firefox, it is being styled as #profile_password_form, which
> is only 300 wide and has margin-left of 380, which is just totally not
> what I wanted...
>
> NONE of the styles should be applied from an ID that's not even in the
> whole page!
>
> And if it IS going to apply them, at least be consistent with INPUT
> and TEXTAREA and apply the same rules!
>
> Grrrrr.
>
> CSS seems so damn random!

Aha!

As Audra Coldiron pointed out on another list...

#id1 input, textarea, select means:

(#id1 input), (* textarea), (* select)

and does NOT mean the same as what I should have typed:

#id1 input, #id1 textarea, #id1 select

This even makes sense, now...

:-)

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