[WEB4LIB] Re: Can an element have two class attributes?

[Thomas Dowling]

Randy Norwood wrote:
> I don't think that's allowed within one element. Besides, how would that
> work? How would the browser determine which class to apply in a particular
> page request?


It is allowed: the class attribute "assigns a class name or set of class
names to an element...Multiple class names must be separated by white
space characters."
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-class>

Browsers figure out what styles to use by applying the normal cascade.
In '<div class="foo bar">' the foo and bar classes have equal priority,
so in the case of a conflict the browser should use the property defined
last--bar would trump foo in this case.  Seems to be correctly supported
in IE6 and Firefox (natch!).

[Very sensible information about Javascript snipped.]


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Thomas Dowling
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