This question may sound a bit weird/novice/stupid. Please bear with me.
The below code is a small portion of a webpage I have created using CSS,
HTML and coldfusion.
<head>
---------------------Part 1--------------------------------------
<CFIF CompareNoCase('#aid#', 0)>
<cfinclude template="show.cfm">
<cfabort>
</CFIF>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css?1322665623">
</head>
---------------------------PART 2------------------------------------
<body id="wp-home">
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="header left">
<h1><a href="index.cfm" class="right logo">Name Of Client</a></h1>
<div class="tagline">
<span class="left blair"><a href="index.cfm" class="homelink">home</a></span>
<span class="headerline"></span>
<span class="right blair"><a href="index.cfm" class="homelink">antiques</a></span>
</div>
</div>
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As you see, I have included a css file, style.css which contains all the style classes required to display PART 2 correctly.
Problem is, whenever part 1 is active ( is true), the same
css is applied to elements in file SHOW.CFM also. This totally messes up the page’s original display.
For the time being I have placed a tag below the link to stop page from processing and the css file being loaded.
I have checked show.css multiple times and can confirm that no class from styles.css is used in it.
Hence, my question is if I can stop the styles from style.css to be applied on elements loaded from SHOW.CFM
Pardon me if the question is insanely stupid 😉
If a selector matches then a rule will apply until overridden by a rule (which sets the same property) further down the cascade.
You can either change your selectors to stop them matching the elements you don’t want them to match, or you can override all your rules in that section.