Re: override style in parent element

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mjansen.merge.emed (AT) gmail (DOT) com <mjansen.merge.emed (AT) gmail (DOT) com> scripsit:

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Is there a way to override inline within the <body> a style of an
element but not do it with a style attribute on the element?

You can use a class or id attribute and a suitable selector in the
stylesheet that you have in a <style> element or in an external stylesheet.

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I know
CSS Inheritance works for some styles, but doesn't appear to work for
margins, etc.

How does inheritance affect the issue? Beware that inheritance is the most
often misunderstood concept in CSS. If you set a value to a property of an
element, no inheritance affects that property of that element.

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I'm generating HTML. I don't have access to the <head>.

So you are generating an HTML fragment, right? This is a bad situation. Are
you sure there is no _solution_ to this, so that you need to look for
workarounds and tricks?

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In the
head> is a stylesheet that defines a style for <p>. I have HTML I am
wrapping around other generated HTML (that I don't have access to)
that emits a <p> tag, and its getting (obviously) the style from the
stylesheet. So I'd like to be able to override the style via some
surrounding elements.

Why do you think you need surrounding elements? What is the reason for
excluding the of the style attribute (on the element itself), which would be
the _simplest_ way, assuming that you cannot affect the <head> element (or
an external style sheet? Actually, it looks pretty much the only solution
under the circumstances.

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!-- POINT A: begin what i have control over --
div style="position:absolute; top:0px; right:0px;"
!--begin more stuff i don't have control over --
p>TheOtherGeneratedStuff</p
!-- back to me again--
/div

If I understand you right, you are saying that you can only affect some
elements in the document tree, excluding their subelements. I wonder what's
the point is such a setting. I'd look for a solution, consisting of a change
in the overall setting, rather than solving the virtually unsolvable puzzle.

No, there's really no way interfere in such a manner. You can set properties
for an element using the style attribute, but not for its subelements; they
may inherit properties, but that's their business - and won't happen when a
style sheet sets a property for an element.

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Could I
just insert some java script to save and restore the <p> style ?

Maybe, but what would happen when scripting is disabled or your JavaScript
code is simply filtered out by a company firewall in the user's
organization?

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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Re: override style in parent element - 08-10-2006 , 04:17 PM