Bug 178179 The order of included css files keeps unchanged when reloading
Xingjie once asked Rima this question, and Rima answered that the order kept unchanged. The question and answer are listed following: About reload css. Now there is duplicate style name problem. Which css file is added at last, which file has the highest priority. For example design file has two css file. base.css and new.css . Base.css ----- StyleA ----- StyleB New.css -----StyleA -----StyleC So the priority of new.css is higher. So we can get three styles: New.css.styleA, StyleB, StyleC When I execute reload base.css action, There is two choices. One is : keep every thing. That means the priority of new.css is higher too. Second is: After reload, priority of base.css is higher. And in report design you will see New.css -----StyleA -----StyleC Base.css ----- StyleA ----- StyleB And we can get three styles: base.css.styleA, styleB, styleC Which is the better choice? I will let Xiong send a bug about the choice that in future we can know the behavior. [Rima Kanguri] Always the priority of the last file included is highest. In your example the styles defined in New.css takes higher priority always. Even when user performs a reload operation.
model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/api/DesignElementHandle.java
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	public void setStyle( SharedStyleHandle style ) throws StyleException
	{
		if ( style == null )
			setStyleElement( null );
		else
			setStyleElement( (StyleElement) style.getElement( ) );
	}
	/**
	 * Returns a handle to work with the style properties of this element. Use a
	 * style handle to work with the specific getter/setter methods for each
	 * style property. The style handle is not necessary to work with style
	 * properties generically.
	 * <p>
	 * Note a key difference between this method and the
	 * <code>getStyle( )</code> method. This method returns a handle to the
	 * <em>this</em> element. The <code>getStyle( )</code> method returns a
	 * handle to the shared style, if any, that this element references.
	 * 
	 * @return a style handle to work with the style properties of this element.
	 *         Returns <code>null</code> if this element does not have style
	 *         properties.
	 */
	public StyleHandle getPrivateStyle( )
	{
		if ( getDefn( ).hasStyle( ) )
			return new PrivateStyleHandle( module, getElement( ) );
		return null;
	}
	/**