XML Companion, The, Third Edition

Simple element mapping

As previously described, defining a style rule for a given element requires specification of the element name (the selector), followed by a set of declarations:

head1   { font-size: 32pt ; color: blue }

More than one rule may be defined for each element. Providing that the declarations do not conflict, they simply accumulate as if they had been defined in a single rule. The example below is functionally identical to the less verbose version above:

head1   { font-size: 32pt }
head1   { color: blue }

When separate rules do conflict, the last rule in the stylesheet applies. In the following example, the Head1 element is displayed in green:

head1   { font-size: 32pt ; color: blue }
head1   { color: green }

Importance override