Damn, and I was going getting excited too just reading it through bloglines...then I saw the update.

Too bad.

Johan, the universal selector is going to screw up a lot of other things - the point i think the point snook is making is that he just wants links to inherit color...not "everything"

@ Dustin I see your point. All in technicolor.

I was all 'w00t' and then I was all 'doh!'...

Yes, "inherit" is a very useful value. When broadly implemented.

Truly brilliant, how come noone have thought of this before (atleast I haven't seen it elsewhere).

IEs lack of support is sad, but I will probably use this anyway. I don't care if IE-users get a distorted layout (actually I think designs should stop with the constant workarounds for IE (except maybe for major things) this - more then anything - would force IE to adapt the standards. The websites are supposed to degrade, if people are using old browsers they get the content, but layout etc. may be distorted).

Sweet, I had never thought about that. What a way to save some time. Too bad IE seems to be out of the loop again. Well back to more hacks and/or long hand coding.

Ditto on the *sigh* .

I've been using this on my latest redesign, but only in one spot on my admittedly messy CSS. I wanted a way to toggle tags on and off for del.icio.us posts, and I also wanted the toggle link to change with the status. The toggled text was set to display:none; and color:inherit; and used the same class as the toggled tags. Saved me some code.

Kind of difficult to explain, but it works well in civil browsers.

I was all ready to go clean up my css files, till I read the update. I don't really care about IE, but I have like 40% of my readers using IE, so I guess I will have to wait for IE to catch up before I make any changes.

but, as a halfway measure, you can still have multiple comma-separated selectors, which is what i normally tend to do

#nav, #nav a { color: #9c0; }

I remember when I first became obsessed with web standards and I read everything I could find about css and I tried inherit on links for the same functionality. I used IE at the time so I figured it didn't work at all. It's interesting to know that the rest of the pack does support it...

Yup, we had a design problem come up recently at work and I suggested using inherit, but then someone else pointed out that IE doesn't grok it.

Feh.

The problem in IE can be fixed with a little expression:

a { color: expression(this.parentNode.currentStyle.color); }

What do you think?

Stepan: brilliant!

That's more than brilliant stepan thank you so much :)

Great idea Stepan. I was just getting very frustrated with IE's lack of support for 'inherit', and you've shown a general way that it can be used (and it works for any attribute!).