CSS-Cascade

Question 1

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

Answer 1

1. Inheritance
2. specificity
3. important
4. source-order.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Order of the rules down the page. (lower it is the more important it is).

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

Use Inheritance from the parent.

usually font style is inherited and others are not IN GENERAL

Question 4

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 4

element type < class < id

Question 5

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 5

It will make debugging more difficult. (Avoid it as much as you can!!!)