Comments on: Understanding Style Precedence in CSS: Specificity, Inheritance, and the Cascade

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:26:48 +0000

Glad I could help.

By: Seuns

Seuns — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:21:50 +0000

That really sorted me out!

So simple and yet so vital.

Thank you very much.

Seun, Nigeria.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:32:45 +0000

I used to do that too. Sometimes the specificity of things can be confusing or difficult to see so you add more and more higher level selectors.

However the more you think about specificity as you’re writing your css, the more you won’t have to work your way back up the stack and the leaner you can make your code.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:30:47 +0000

Thanks Bhadra.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:30:26 +0000

It can be easy to ignore and work around, but if you do pay attention to it you can end up writing leaner code and you’ll likely have a few less headaches here and there wondering why one of your styles won’t take.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:29:25 +0000

Hopefully it can help a few people past the beginner stage too. This stuff wasn’t always clear to me when I first started learning css and writing the post actually cleared up a few things for me.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:28:35 +0000

Thanks arjay.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:28:19 +0000

Thanks Hitesh.

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By: Lucian Apostol

Lucian Apostol — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:10:40 +0000

Well, i used to change things and see if they work. I had this problem and i didn’t know that was the case. I kept trying and it didn’t worked until i specified the highest ID from the HTML structure.