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The Concept of Cascading

Explore how CSS cascading works by understanding selector specificity and property inheritance. Learn how styles combine and which rules take precedence to effectively control web page appearance.

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The CSS specification

Each rule has a selector that defines the part of the web page, more precisely, the set of HTML tags, that the rule is applied to.

Frequently, more than one selector is applied for most HTML tags; in this case, ...