CSS-cascade

Question 1

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

Answer 1

Inheritance, source-order, specificity, importance

Question 2

What does the term “source order” mean with respect to CSS?

Answer 2

Source order is, simply put, the order that your CSS rules are written in your stylesheet. The styling provided for an element last in your stylesheet is the styling that will ultimately take effect.

Question 3

How is it possible for the styles of an element to be applied to its children as well without an additional CSS rule?

Answer 3

Inheritance is the process by which certain CSS properties on a child HTML element can receive value from a parent element, if no CSS for that property is directly declared on the child element

Question 4

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 4

Type, class, ID

Question 5

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 5

it makes debugging more difficult by breaking the natural cascading in your stylesheets