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Specificity is the algorithm used by browsers to determine the CSS declaration that is the most relevant to an element, which in turn, determines the property value to apply to the element.
- What is the correct order of CSS specificity?
- Does element ID affect CSS specificity?
- Which type of CSS is most specific?
What is the correct order of CSS specificity?
Below are the order of specificity rule which has precedence respectively: 1) Inline style: Inline style has highest priority among all. 2) Id Selector: It has second highest priority. 3) Classes, pseudo-classes and attributes: These selectors has lowest priority.
Does element ID affect CSS specificity?
CSS Specificity Rules
Say an element is targeted by an ID selector and a class selector. In that case, because the ID selector has the higher specificity, the CSS style of the ID selector will be applied to the element over the style of the class selector.
Which type of CSS is most specific?
Inline styles have the highest specificity. In our specificity weight system, they have a value of 1000. Let's try to make sense of it. The property values of selectors with a higher weight will always be applied over a selector with a lower weight.
