css-cascade

Question 1

What are the four components of “the Cascade”

Answer 1

source order (the bottom most gets the application of the rule set), inheritance, specificity (some selectors are given more priority than others), and !important.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The bottom most ruleset gets priority

Question 3

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 3

type, class, id

Question 4

why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 4

Breaks natural cascading and makes debugging difficult