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Cascading and specificity are used together to determine the final value of a CSS styling property. They also define the mechanisms for resolving conflicts in CSS rule sets. CSS Loading order Styles are read from the following sources, in this order: User Agent stylesheet (The styles supplied b...

The !important declaration is used to override the usual specificity in a style sheet by giving a higher priority to a rule. Its usage is: property : value !important; #mydiv { font-weight: bold !important; /* This property won't be overridden by the ...

Each individual CSS Selector has its own specificity value. Every selector in a sequence increases the sequence's overall specificity. Selectors fall into one of three different specificity groups: A, B and c. When multiple selector sequences select a given element, the browser uses the styles appli...

div { font-size: 7px; border: 3px dotted pink; background-color: yellow; color: purple; } body.mystyle > div.myotherstyle { font-size: 11px; background-color: green; } #elmnt1 { font-size: 24px; border-color: red; } .mystyle .myotherstyle { ...