css-cascade

Question 1

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

Answer 1

Source order, inheritance, specificity and !important.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The order in which the CSS code is read.

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

Using inheritance.

Question 4

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 4

Element selector, class selector and ID selector.