Posted by Andy Dingley on 08/30/06 12:14

News Hippo wrote:

> basically how do I redefine .data, .toprow, .leftcol so that they too
> only apply to the table id "sample"?

Try this

table#sample td.data { ... }

Watch out for whitespace! If the qualifier (class or id) touches the
element name, then the selector matches elements that have that
qualifier themselves. If there's whitespace between them, then instead
they match a _child_ element that has that qualifier.

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