The Cascade and Specificity

See: CSS 2.1: Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance

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Stylesheet Origin

• author stylesheet
• reader (user) stylesheet
• browser (user agent) stylesheet

Specificity of Selector

• style attribute
• count "id" attributes
• count number of other attributes ("class")
• count element names

Order

• last occurence has higher specificity

  @import-ed stylesheets come before rules in the importing sheet.