Forum OpenACS Q&A: css question

if i have <div class=asdf>foo</div>, and i want part of "foo" to be another div with regular body style, can i do that w/o making a "clone" of BODY in the css? (<div class=body> doesn't work.)

You can place another <div> tag without a class which would pick up the default -

<div class=asdf>hello</div>
<div>small</div>
<div class=asdf>world</div>

but I don't think you can nest the <div>'s if thats what you mean  -

<div class=asdf>
hello
<div>small</div>
world
</div>

My thruppence ha'penny ;)

    - Steve

The short answer is "no". But how you do it depends on your stylesheet. In the first place you're talking about a contextual selector div.asdf div (i.e. a div with no class inside a div with a class of asdf). You could save yourself some "cloning" by combining the definitions of body and div.asdf div, but you'll have to explicitly spell out what would otherwise be defaults:

body, div.asdf div {
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size:medium;
}

div.asdf {
    font-style: italic;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: large;
}