[pmwiki-users] [pmwiki-devel] Cookbook/SkinGuidelines needs cleaning up.

Hans design5 at softflow.co.uk
Wed May 23 02:26:42 CDT 2007


Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 6:02:46 AM, Stirling wrote:

> As I'm writing this new skin, I've been reading the PmWiki docs on skins,
> templates and guidelines for making the same. I've found the part about the
> load order of CSS to be turgid and confusing. I'd fix it, but I'm not sure I
> understand the issue well enough to fix that section.

> The problem is that it keeps talking about load order, when what a person
> usually wants to know is the precedence implications. The text assumes they
> will be obvious, and they aren't, at least not to me.

For css any values assigned to attributes later will take precedence
over what was assigned earlier, therefor what comes last in the load
order (further down in the skin template link tags to load style
sheets) will take precedence over what came earlier. The last wins.

Hope this helps.


Hans




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