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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Class and ID Selectors

Sekhar Reddy
Sekhar Reddy
1,141 Points
Posted by Sekhar Reddy
Sekhar Reddy
1,141 Points

Overriding the styles in a CSS file?

How the browser implement a style property (ex: p {font-size : 20px;} on line 10 and different line 20 with same style property (ex: p {font-size : 30px;} in a CSS file?

1 Answer

Dave McFarland
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Dave McFarland
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Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

If you have two CSS rules with the same level of specificity -- two rules with the same selector name, for example -- then the rule that's specified LAST will win. In your example, the style on line 20 p { font-size: 30px;} wins.