How to increase the specificity of a CSS class?
Another way to juice up the specificity value for your “.favorite” class is to use the !important declaration. I once heard it said that !important is like the Jedi mind trick for CSS. Indeed it is, and you can force your will over the styling of elements by using it.
How to calculate the specificity of a selector?
The best way to explain it is to start with an example of where specificity gets confusing and perhaps doesn’t behave like you would expect. Then we’ll take a closer look at how to calculate the actual specificity value to determine which selector takes precedence.
When to use inheritance or specificity in CSS?
To get there, let’s go back to the basics and see how source order, inheritance, and specificity work together. Source order is the first rule that determines which CSS style takes precedence. When overriding styles for a CSS selector, this rule should be taken into consideration first.
Which is higher priority specificity or ordering in CSS?
Specificity has higher priority than ordering rules, therefore, irrespective if your rule is at the top or bottom, specificity still has higher priority and will be applied. CSS rules always prioritize from left to right, then from top to bottom.
What do you need to know about CSS specificity?
More… CSS Specificity is the set of the rules applied to CSS selectors in order to determine which style is applied to an element. The more specific a CSS style is, the higher point value it accrues, and the likelier it is to be present on the element’s style.
The best way to explain it is to start with an example of where specificity gets confusing and perhaps doesn’t behave like you would expect. Then we’ll take a closer look at how to calculate the actual specificity value to determine which selector takes precedence.
To get there, let’s go back to the basics and see how source order, inheritance, and specificity work together. Source order is the first rule that determines which CSS style takes precedence. When overriding styles for a CSS selector, this rule should be taken into consideration first.
Specificity has higher priority than ordering rules, therefore, irrespective if your rule is at the top or bottom, specificity still has higher priority and will be applied. CSS rules always prioritize from left to right, then from top to bottom.