css-cascade Flashcards
1
Q
What are the four components of “the Cascade”.
A
specificity, inheritance, source-order, importance
2
Q
What does the term “source order” mean with respect to CSS?
A
the order in which the CSS rules are listed in CSS
3
Q
How is it possible for the styles of an element to be applied to its children as well without an additional CSS rule?
A
because of inheritance
4
Q
List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.
A
type, class, and id selectors
5
Q
Why is using !important considered bad practice?
A
makes debugging more difficult by breaking the natural cascading in stylesheets
