Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > On 22/5/09 12:49, PJ wrote: >> Sorry, but no one suggested a mailing list for CSS and the W3 Schools >> Forum has problems. > > Actually, I did: > > http://www.css-discuss.org/ My apologies... wasn't at the top of my attention at that point. :-[ > >> Why do I get completely different formatting with two identical classes? >> I want to change part of the formatting on just one page on the site >> using the exact same class with some changes so I don't modify other >> pages. I copied div#frame to div#frame1 and changed the class on the >> page to id="frame1". But now the page no longer displays the formatting >> as with id="frame" - e.g.<p> produces 16px font-size instead of 12px. > > This description is confusing. Can you please link to a minimal test > case showing the problem you're talking about, so that we can view > your code and ideally probe it with DOM inspectors like Firebug? Ok, I have duplicate classes - #frame and #frame1. What I don't understand is why switching from #frame to #frame1 should change formatting. The two classes are absolutely the same, the only difference is the "1" in the name. I would logically assume that the interpreter or whoever is operating this stuff would understand that the page is using a different class, whether it is the same name as another or not. If I create still another class and start to format the various sections of that class, I will wind up with the identical class as #frame1. So where is the logic here? This is utterly incomprehesible and seems to the the typical mess that we find in using CSS. It seems to me that what I am trying to do is logically and intuitively clear and simple. I think you can see the implications of such confusion in creating a different class - how can I rely on it doing what one would expect? > > http://webkit.org/quality/reduction.html > > may help you produce one. > > In general, I'd suggest creating page-specific style variations by > sticking a class on the body (e.g. <body class="article"> ) and using > that as a hook to modify the styling of the class whose formatting you > want to be different. > > .thing { > font-weight: bold; > } > > .article .thing { > font-style: italic; > } > > for example. > > -- > Benjamin Hawkers-Lewis > -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
