CSS Cascade

Question 1

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

Answer 1

source order
Inheritance
specificity
!important

Question 2

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

Answer 2

the order that your CSS rules are written in your stylesheet

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

Inheritance

Question 4

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 4

1. type selectors
2. class selectors
3. id selectors

Inline styles have highest specificity

Question 5

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 5

it makes debugging more difficult by breaking the natural cascading in your stylesheets.