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Thanks, I just learned something. I have no idea why it has to be written that way rather than another (I'd expect the class to just distribute in the obvious way), but I'll definitely make use of the trick.
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Re^6: Your kung fu is excellent but what about...
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 21, 2004 at 07:34 UTC

    That confirms my suspicions that most people rag on CSS out of ignorance rather than having valid criticism… :-) To be fair, I also have yet to see any suitable introductory material for it that managed to convey how to think CSS in simple and clear terms. It took me a very long time to grok some of its aspects, and not even subtle ones at that, simply due to the lack of good material about it.

    What I did there is specify a selector, in CSS lingo. It's one of the things that make CSS so incredibly useful. The relevant section of the spec is actually quite readable, compared to other parts. Unfortunately, IE only supports CSS1's selector forms (see sections 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 in that spec).

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      And that is the thing. I've read the introductory material, and played with examples. I can usually get CSS to kinda work. But I haven't wanted to "learn it the right way" because I know that there are lots of problems with compatibility, and I'd wind up knowing just enough to be irritated by them. Whereas now I don't have many expectations, and don't get disappointed.
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