ISSUE-625: Provide way for user stylesheet to override specificity rules

cssSpecificity

Provide way for user stylesheet to override specificity rules

State:

CLOSED

Product:

CSS

Raised by:

James Nurthen

Opened on:

2013-10-16

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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