Re: Cascading styles

[Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>]

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On Sun, Dec 05 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Yes, but that's special-casing the colour things.  :-)  If you have
>
> <p style="border: 3px;">foo<p>bar
>
> then only the top-level p should have a border, and the next one
> shouldn't.  But it's kinda moot, since I don't think any of the
> properties we're interested in have this kinda of behaviour.

Well, rendering foo is calling shr-descend, so you'll only have border
style set on foo. (how to draw the border is another problem. :))

>> With:
>> <p style="background: blue; color: red;">foo<p style="color: green;">bar</p></p>
>>
>> You start with the first style, render foo with background and
>> foreground. Then you got for bar via shr-descend, which changes color to
>> green, but merge with the previous dynamically bound shr-stylesheet, so
>> it still has background set to 'blue'. You render bar, exit 2
>> shr-descend calls, and continue to render what else is in the document.
>
> Yes...  except that we're setting the colour after rendering all the
> children today.

Yes, that's our problem I think. I think it should be done in 2 passes:
first render text (`insert') then render style (`overlay'). That would
probably solves all the problem (and maybe insert new ones :-)).

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Julien Danjou
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