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State: RAISED OPEN PENDINGREVIEW CLOSED POSTPONED
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Raised By: Vince Abbate Jake Abma Irfan Ali Matthew Atkinson Nadine Auer Andrew Barakat Mike Beganyi Rain Breaw Michaels Judy Brewer Sheri Byrne-Haber Amy Carney Michael Cooper Santina Croniser Deborah Dahl Yao Ding Dee Dyer Niklas Egger Steve Faulkner David Fazio Reinaldo Ferraz Fredrik Fischer John Foliot Russell Galvin Becky Gibson Paul Grenier Markku Hakkinen Katie Haritos-Shea Scott Hollier Jonny James Sam Kanta George Kerscher Jeff Kline Raja Kushalnagar Charles LaPierre Steve Lee Gez Lemon Todd Libby Amanda Mace Mary Jo Mueller Andrew Nevins Steve Noble Joshue O'Connor Brian O'Day Achraf Othman John Paton Ian Pouncey Sonali Rai Ruoxi Ran Kai Recke Alan Reeve Janina Sajka Ciara salmon Lisa Seeman-Horwitz Tzviya Siegman Avneesh Singh David Sloan Alisa Smith Sharon Snider Neil Soiffer Jeanne F Spellman Jeff Stanley David Swallow Jamie Vanderwall Harry Wang Léonie Watson Anna Wheler Jason White Lionel Wolberger Sarah Wood Gottfried Zimmermann James Nurthen
Description: CSS Cascading and Inheritance http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-cascade/#cascading needs to provide a method to override the specificity rules to allow a user specified style to override author specified styles. Take for example the following scenario. The user requires all text to have increased line spacing so they want to set * {line-height: 2;!important} in their user CSS. This works fine until the author has specified something like UL LI {line-height: 1.1;} in the author CSS which, due to the higher specificity will override the user stylesheet despite the !important. Those users who require more line spacing (or other requirements) need a method to be able to specify this in their user stylesheet and have this apply across all sites.
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Migrated to https://github.com/w3c/css-a11y/issues/3.