The Concept of Cascade and Inheritance in CSS
Explore the fundamental CSS concepts of cascade and inheritance to understand how styles pass from parent to child elements and how multiple stylesheets interact. Mastering these principles helps you write cleaner code and resolve style conflicts effectively.
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Every successful CSS developer understands cascade and inheritance. It’s really pivotal. Now let me explain it to you.
Inheritance
The English word Inheritance means to receive something from a former owner. Usually, a predecessor, ancestor, parent or former owner.
The same may be said of CSS. Inheritance in CSS means that styles from parent elements can be inherited by children elements. i.e without specifying the style on the children element themselves. ...