[Building Sakai] !important css properties in sakai

[Silverio, Gonzalo]

Hi Sean,

I really think  that most of  the !important declarations are just the result of historical accretion and are mostly not needed. I would be willing to help someone in removing them and/or the need for them.

    -Gonzalo


On 8/18/09 7:52 PM, "Sean Keesler" <sean.keesler at threecanoes.com> wrote:

I just did a bit of work skinning sakai and noticed a lot of "!important" properties in the css files.

When I read about !important declarations, I see that it was used sometimes to fix IE 6 bugs in rendering pages.
It also (if I understand it) will override local user defined stylesheet properties, unless their local stylesheet declares their settings to be !important as well.

I see that IE 6 is no longer a supported browser for Sakai, so I wonder if we need to have !important declarations any more (It seems to render fine for me in IE7 without them) and whether that actually gives any more local control (or make it easier to do so) to end users to style Sakai for and make it more accessible.

Sean Keesler
130 Academy Street
Manlius, New York 13104 USA
315-663-7756
sean.keesler at threecanoes.com

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