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CSS Cascade and Specificity

Understand how conflicts resolve via importance, specificity, and source order.

CSS Cascade and Specificity — a practical guide to CSS cascade specificity with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Lower specificity keeps overrides sane — avoid ID selectors for styling.

Specificity tip

inline > ids > classes/attributes/pseudo-classes > elements
:where() has zero specificity
Later rules win when specificity ties

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