CSS Cascade Flashcards
1
Q
What are the four components of “the Cascade”.
A
Source order, Inheritance, Specificity, !important
2
Q
What does the term “source order” mean with respect to CSS?
A
the order that your CSS rules are written in your stylesheet
3
Q
How is it possible for the styles of an element to be applied to its children as well without an additional CSS rule?
A
Inheritance
4
Q
List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.
A
type selectors, class selectors, id selectors
5
Q
Why is using !important considered bad practice?
A
It breaks the natural cascading in stylesheets making debugging harder
