Thanks to Theo Spears awesome effort premailer now support CSS specificity. What that means is that when linked and inline CSS blocks are transformed into tag style attributes the order is preserved as you'd expect.

When the browser applies CSS to elements it does it in a specific order. For example if you have this CSS:


p.tag { color: blue; }
p { color: red; }

and this HTML:


<p>Regular text</p>
<p class="tag">Special text</p>

the browser knows to draw the first paragraph tag in red and the second paragraph in red. It does that because p.tag is more specific that p.

Before, it would just blindly take each selector and set it as a style tag like this:


<p style="color:red">Regular text</p>
<p style="color:blue; color:red" class="tag">Special text</p>

which is not what you want.

The code in action is here.

Thanks Theo!

Comments

Your email will never ever be published.

Previous:
HTML whitespace "compression" - don't bother! March 11, 2013 Web development
Next:
Never put external Javascript in the <head> April 2, 2013 Web development
Related by category:
How I run standalone Python in 2025 January 14, 2025 Python
get in JavaScript is the same as property in Python February 13, 2025 Python
How to resolve a git conflict in poetry.lock February 7, 2020 Python
Best practice with retries with requests April 19, 2017 Python
Related by keyword:
Premailer.io July 8, 2015 Python, Web development, AngularJS, JavaScript
premailer.py - Transform CSS into line style attributes with lxml.html July 11, 2009 Python
premailer now excludes pseudo selectors by default May 27, 2013 Python, Web development
Premailer 3.0.0 - classes kept by default June 7, 2016 Python, Web development