CSS Specificity
Learn about CSS specificity and its rules.
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Here, we’ll cover the most common use cases of CSS selectors and understand CSS specificity in detail.
We’ll start with specificity.
Introduction to CSS specificity
CSS specificity is a way for the browser to determine which CSS declarations to apply when it comes across ambiguous syntax.
In other words, it’s a way for the browser to decide which styles to apply when there is more than a single CSS declaration for the same element(s) on the page.
Here’s the HTML, CSS, and the corresponding output:
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