Demonstrating inheritance

I understand the basics of inheritance, but am not sure how to use DW to show
it. Example:

Body has green background, which is passed through div wrapper to div sideBar.

How can I show the origin of the green background in div sideBar (when that
property is not set in sideBar)? I can't seem to get this info from the CSS
panel. And available elsewhere, too? I somewhere read that this is possible.

Thanks very much,

Sonny

The Properties section now shows you the cascade of styles into the
element you have selected and where they came from.

By default, the center pane shows "info". You have to click on the
"cascade" icon on the right side of the center pane header to see the
cascade. I described this in more detail here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2008/12/css_styles_panel.html

Also, while this technique will lead you to where the applicable CSS
property is defined, the body background color showing through its child
paragraphs (p tags) is technically not CSS "inheritance". It just
shows through. The Summary pane at the top is more helpful in this
particular case.

HTH,
Randy

Thanks, Randy.
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"Randy Edmunds" <redmunds_nospam (AT) adobe (DOT) com> wrote

The Properties section now shows you the cascade of styles into the
element you have selected and where they came from.

By default, the center pane shows "info". You have to click on the
"cascade" icon on the right side of the center pane header to see the
cascade. I described this in more detail here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2008/12/css_styles_panel.html

Also, while this technique will lead you to where the applicable CSS
property is defined, the body background color showing through its child
paragraphs (p tags) is technically not CSS "inheritance". It just shows
through. The Summary pane at the top is more helpful in this particular
case.

HTH,
Randy

I now realize that my example of "background" was not well-chosen, and confused me. Using font-family, it works fine.

Thanks for the help.

Sonny