css21/cascade/inherit-004.xht

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  <title>CSS Test: CSS inheritance: basic test</title>
  <link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch"/>
  <link rel="reviewer" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/" /> <!-- 2012-04-08 -->
  <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/inheritance/001.html" type="text/html"/>
  <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#fonts-intro" />

  <style type="text/css">
   p { color: blue; }
   .test { font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: inherit; }
   .test span { font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: red; }
  </style>
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  <p> <span class="test"> This sentence should be <span> </span> the same throughout. </span> </p>
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