Style Precedence
A single HTML or XHTML document can import and link to multiple external style sheets, contain one or more embedded style sheets, and make use of inline styles. In the process, it is quite possible that some rules will conflict with each other. CSS uses a mechanism called the cascade to resolve any such conflicts and arrive at a final set of styles to be applied to the document. Two key components of the cascade are specificity and inheritance.
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