css-cascade

Question 1

What purpose does the CSS Cascade serve?

Answer 1

The CSS cascade algorithm’s job is to select CSS declarations in order to determine the correct values for CSS properties

Question 2

What is source order?

Answer 2

at a very simple level this means that the order of CSS rules matter; when two rules apply that have equal specificity the one that comes last in the CSS is the one that will be used

Question 3

In what situations might you need to apply styling to a single element multiple times in one stylesheet?

Answer 3

Font-family, adjust font-family for individual elements, but most commonly will be used with mobile responsiveness.