Closed Bug 850 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

CSS Universal Selector should be supported

Categories

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement, P2)

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enhancement

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VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: dbaron, Assigned: peterl-retired)

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Details

In a style system where style sheets can cascade, it is important to support the CSS2 universal selector, "*", as described in the CSS2 spec at the URL above, and with priority rules as defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#specificity This is needed in case a user style sheet defines, for example, a color or background-color for B, EM, DT, or some other similar element. The page author, to override this, would either need to define his color and background-color on every single element, or use the universal selector. This is why it is so important (but is only useful in the context of *cascading* style sheets.) ‰
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
I just changed the URL to a test case that I made, http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/csstest/univsel.html which has a link to the old URL field, which was http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#universal-selector‰
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
QA Contact: 3847
assigning qa_contact field.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Verified Fixt 2/3/99 build
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