Why does standard.css override my own css file

[Jaap]

Hi, if add a CSS body statement to the CSS file of my project I see
with Firebug that the browser actually does take the values from
standard.css and not from my CSS file.
Can I change this somehow? Is it intentional? Is this a bug?

Thanks

Jaap

[Jaap]

I just noticed this as well with setting the font size of buttons. If
you create a new GWT 1.6 project in eclipse and in the CSS file you
change the following

.sendButton {
display: block;
font-size: 16pt;
}

to

.sendButton {
display: block;
font-size: 24pt;
}

The font size does not change because .gwtButton in standard.css sets
the font-size.

Any help appreciated

Thanks

Jaap

[Jeff Chimene]

I usually solve this using !important rules
(http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#x11). There are other methods,
e.g. declaring your own classes that build on the GWT.

[Jeff Chimene]

On 04/13/2009 03:31 PM, Jaap wrote:

OTOH, !important rules shouldn't be necessary. Perhaps there's something
else wrong here...

[Vitali Lovich]

If in Firebug it gives the element style, then that means your style is being set explicitly in the code & you have to use !important.  Otherwise, you've got some other problem.

[Thomas Broyer]

See
http://groups.google.fr/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/msg/15c54d6c9e88e5f0
and
http://groups.google.fr/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/msg/3e630a3059303b19

It's neither "intentional" nor a bug, it's just the way it works.