Cascading and Specificity

Remarks

CSS specificity intends to promote code conciseness by allowing an author to define some general formatting rules for a broad set of elements, and then to override them for a certain subset.

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Cascading and specificity:

*Cascading and Specificity

*Calculating Selector Specificity

*The important declaration

*More complex specificity example

Table Of Contents

0Getting started

8Cascading and specificity

15Pseudo-elements

172D transforms

19Browser support prefixes

20Normalizing browser styles

22Layout control

23Filter property

25Cursor styling

27Custom properties, variables

28Shapes for floats

323D Transforms

34Single element shapes

38Inline-block layout

40CSS Image Sprites

41Clipping and masking

44Structure and formatting of a css rule

45Fragmentation

47CSS Object Model (CSSOM)

48Feature queries

49Stacking context

50Internet Explorer hacks

51Block formatting context

52Vertical centering

53Object Fit and Placement

54Multiple columns

55CSS design patterns