flex style的继承顺序

If you define a style in only one place in a document, Flex uses that definition to set a property’s value. However, an application can have several style sheets, local style definitions, external style properties, and style properties set directly on component instances. In such a situation, Flex determines the value of a property by looking for its definition in all these places in a specific order.

Lower-level styles take precedence over higher-level or external styles. If you set a style on an instance, and then set the style globally, the global style does not override the local style, even if you set it after you set the local style.

Style inheritance order
The order in which Flex looks for styles is important to understand so that you know which style properties apply to which controls.

Flex looks for a style property that was set inline on the component instance. If no style was set on the instance using an inline style, Flex checks if a style was set using an instance’s setStyle() method. If it did not directly set the style on the instance, Flex examines the styleName property of the instance to see if a style declaration is assigned to it.

If you did not assign the styleName property to a style declaration, Flex looks for the property on type selector style declarations. If there are no type selector declarations, Flex checks the global selector. If all of these checks fail, the property is undefined, and Flex applies the default style.

In the early stages of checking for a style, Flex also examines the control’s parent container for style settings. If the style property is not defined and the property is inheritable, Flex looks for the property on the instance’s parent container. If the property isn’t defined on the parent container, Flex checks the parent’s parent, and so on. If the property is not inheritable, Flex ignores parent container style settings.

The order of precedence for style properties, from first to last, is as follows:

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[*]Inline
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[*]Class selector
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[*]Type selectors (most immediate class takes precedence when multiple selectors apply the same style property)
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[*]Ancestor class’s type selector
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[*]Parent chain (inheriting styles only)
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[*]Theme defaults.css file
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[*]global selector
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If you later call the setStyle() method on a component instance, that method takes precedence over all style settings, including inline.

Style definitions in <fx:Style> tags, external style sheets, and the defaults.css style sheet follow an order of precedence. The same style definition in defaults.css is overridden by an external style sheet that is specified by an <fx:Style source="stylesheet"/> tag, which is overridden by a style definition within an <fx:Style> tag.

注意点，如果你用styleManager.loadStyleDeclarations("assets/dynamicStyle.swf",true)的方式动态加载样式，那么动态加载的样式在生命周期内将会覆盖上述定义的样式，当然如果某些样式并没有出现在动态加载的样式里面，当然是不会被覆盖的，可以多次动态加载样式。