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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Classes in CSS

Emmanuel Rojas
Emmanuel Rojas
6,994 Points
Posted by Emmanuel Rojas
Emmanuel Rojas
6,994 Points

Color of the body

If color green was already assigned to the anchor: a { color: #6ab47b; } At the end of this video, the body was assigned color grey:

body { background-color: #fff; color: #999; } But the anchor is inside the body and it was not affected by the new color. Why it is not affected? I thougth the last line you code is the las orther workspaces is going to follow, and the body is the whole document

1 Answer

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Specificity overrides being further down the css file. So since you're targeting anchor tags directly with a color, the color set for the body tag will be ignored.

It kind of goes in this order (least specific to most):

  • parent element (div)
  • element (ul)
  • class (.my-list)
  • class with element (ul.my-list)
  • ID (#your-list)
Emmanuel Rojas
Emmanuel Rojas
6,994 Points
Emmanuel Rojas
Emmanuel Rojas
6,994 Points

Thank you very much I got it more clearly now.