I have two CSS files in my web app: reset.css and screen.css. They appear in that order in the html (reset then screen).
In the reset.css, the following style definition occurs:
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
border-bottom-width:0;
border-color:initial;
border-left-width:0;
border-right-width:0;
border-style:initial;
border-top-width:0;
font-family:inherit;
font-size:100%;
font-style:inherit;
font-weight:inherit;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:0;
margin-top:0;
outline-color:initial;
outline-style:initial;
outline-width:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-left:0;
padding-right:0;
padding-top:0;
vertical-align:baseline;
}
You can see that span
is in this list, and by default has a font-size
of 100%.
In my screen.css, I have the following:
dl.labels-left dt span.req {
display:inline;
font-size:14px !important;
}
My HTML has the following excerpt:
<div>
<dl class="labels-left">
<dt class="larger-a-left">
<label>Name:</label>
<span class="req">*</span>
</dt>
...
The problem I'm having is that the font-size: 14px !important;
is being overridden by the CSS in the reset file, but only in Google Chrome. I can't work out why!
Here's a Firebug Lite screenshot showing the font-size
crossed out:
Why is my reset.css style being considered more important than the specific class definition?
According to my understanding of W3C CSS 2.1 Specificity, this shouldn't happen!