css-cascade Flashcards

1
Q

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

A

inheritance, source order, specificity and important

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

A

the order in which it occurs in the code

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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

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4
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List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

A

type -> class -> id

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5
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Why is using !important considered bad practice?

A

because it makes debugging difficult

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