9.3. CSS specificity

All three articles are dated, but the concepts still apply. Read the first article on Specificity and Inheritance and scan the next two.

• Smashing Magazine’s CSS Specificity And Inheritance

• Smashing Magazine’s CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know

• Andy Clarke’s CSS Specificity Wars

From Andy Clarke’s Stuff and Nonsense.

(a style attribute is an inline style)

View the Keegan Street’s Specificity Calculator for a visual way to understand the weighting.

For even more detail, read Smashing Magazine’s CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know