CSS-Cascade Flashcards
1
Q
What are the four components of “the Cascade”.
A
- Inheritance
- specificity
- important
- source-order.
2
Q
What does the term “source order” mean with respect to CSS?
A
Order of the rules down the page. (lower it is the more important it is).
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
Use Inheritance from the parent.
usually font style is inherited and others are not IN GENERAL
4
Q
List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.
A
element type < class < id
5
Q
Why is using !important considered bad practice?
A
It will make debugging more difficult. (Avoid it as much as you can!!!)
