Tooltips and popovers still inherit font-style and others

[natevw]

In Bootstrap v3.3.1 many of the font settings were properly reset for tooltip/popover content via 2862c30. I'm glad the decision was made in this direction, to reset font/text back to defaults within the content — but the implementation was incomplete. For example, we noticed already that a popover within font-style: italic text has its contents still italic. So #15046 does not seem fully resolved yet.

In case it's helpful, here's a LESS snippet (including a link that could lead you to a relevant reference) that I used for resetting fonts in a non-Bootstrap project:

.reset-text(@fontsize) {    // used to avoid unwanted inheritance of text-related styles from a parent
    // most of this list is based on properties first-line applies to [NOTE: hasn't been exhaustively reviewed]
    // see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::first-line (and W3C spec) for more details
    font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;
    font-size: @fontsize;
    // font, font-family omitted
    color: black;
    word-spacing: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;
    text-shadow: none;

    // some other properties added in as well
    text-indent: 0;
    text-align: left; text-align: start;
}

Note that the snippet above is not exhaustive (it likely covers only the properties we used/anticipated in this particular app and/or predates more properties being added to the spec) but hopefully a more thorough start — not to mention perhaps the idea to encapsulate all the reset in a reusable LESS mixin is valuable.

[kkirsche]

Would I be correct that this would essentially be set as a mixin on the .tooltip and .popover base classes to "default" the text, then overwrite them with our specific values?

[natevw]

Yes, although you may just wish to default to your own (Bootstrap defaults) in your version of the mixin, rather than trying to fully reset all the properties.