css-cascade

Question 1

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

Answer 1

specificity, inheritance, source-order, importance

Question 2

What does the term “source order” mean with respect to CSS?

Answer 2

the order in which the CSS rules are listed in CSS

Question 3

How is it possible for the styles of an element to be applied to its children as well without an additional CSS rule?

Answer 3

because of inheritance

Question 4

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 4

type, class, and id selectors

Question 5

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 5

makes debugging more difficult by breaking the natural cascading in stylesheets