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CSS Bootstrap Basics Responsive Layouts With the Bootstrap Grid Reordering and Offsetting Columns

Chris Komaroff
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Chris Komaroff
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Posted by Chris Komaroff
Chris Komaroff
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Can anyone explain order of precedence for CSS used to hide image for extra small (xs)?

Assumed d-none was overridden by d-sm-block for devices larger than xs. But I notice the order does not seem to matter.

Guil does this in video:

<img class="mb-4 img-fluid rounded d-none d-sm-block " src="img/pdx.jpg" alt="Portland">

I notice this also hides <img>

<img class="mb-4 img-fluid rounded d-sm-block d-none" src="img/pdx.jpg" alt="Portland">

i.e. put d-sm-block before d-none and it works exactly the same.

I like Guil's way better as it looks like normal CSS order of precedence, but that is not true, so I guess d-*-block always overrides d-done.

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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CSS does not assign a precedence to class names based on the order they appear in an element's class list.

But what will make a difference is the order in which the rules pertaining to the classes appear in the CSS file(s).

Chris Komaroff
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Chris Komaroff
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Chris Komaroff
Chris Komaroff
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Steven, thank you, makes sense. Order of classes in class attribute does not matter. Then class="d-none d-sm-block" is same as class="d-sm-block d-none". Instead this "d-sm-block" higher precedence must come from the CSS in bootstrap.

I just read the bootstrap docs more carefully. Docs on display utilities defines this behavior (https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/utilities/display/):

" ... To show an element only on a given interval of screen sizes you can combine one .d--none class with a .d--* class, for example .d-none.d-md-block.d-xl-none will hide the element for all screen sizes except on medium and large devices. ... "

So .d-none always gets overridden by the other display properties, or at least by .d--