[theme-reviewers] Using wp_enqueue_style() With IE Conditionals

[Philip Walton]

Here is a VERY good article on exactly when/why one rule trumps another:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/28-inheritance-and-cascade/#thecascade


On 4/21/11 3:51 PM, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:
> on 21/04/2011 23:07 Otto said the following:
>
>> The problem is that stylesheet order doesn't actually matter. CSS is
>> all about specificity of the definitions.
>
> <snip>
>
> Order *does* matter. Take two identical rules in separate sheets and 
> the later one takes priority. That's how child themes work, after all. 
> :-)
>
> I take your point about specificity but I've got themes that use html 
> in some rules. and given that I tend to be pretty specific when 
> writing CSS anyway, some of them could be damn hard to over-write 
> using pure specificity. I'd argue that there still have to be 
> mechanisms available for plugin authors, developers, users etc to load 
> later sheets.
>
> Mel
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