[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 49059] Unable to remove 'important' priority of a CSS shorthand property

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49059





--- Comment #5 from Alexis Menard (darktears) <alexis.menard at openbossa.org>  2012-02-10 11:43:32 PST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > Just verified that the issue only affects shorthand properties. Maybe we can merge this bug into bug 49098 because they might be of the same cause?
> > 
> > It also affect regular longhand properties.
> > 
> > It seems that it behaves like this on purpose :
> > 
> > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60007
> > 
> > Now I couldn't find anything in the spec about Ian's comment : 
> > "An element with a !important property in its style will allow you to override this property in JavaScript without using !important."
> > 
> > If I take the snippet and run it into Opera 11, Firefox 10 it runs as expecting overriding the !important property.
> > 
> > So what should we do here? I'll be happy to make the patch if a behavior fix is needed.
> > 
> > Ian, Dan???
> 
> If you have "#elem { background: yellow !important; background: red }" in a stylesheet, should the element end up yellow?  If so, why should the behavior of the JS equivalent be different?

The element should be yellow. Opera and Firefox are doing so. It then means that the behavior is different.

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