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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Fundamental Concepts Fundamental Concepts Review

Aynur Ganbarova
Aynur Ganbarova
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Which step resolves the conflict between style declarations and decides which styles are applied by the browser?

what is the answer?

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Brendan Whiting
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It's Specificity. For example, and id has higher specificity than a class. Since there can be only one of something with an id, but many items with the same class, then styles with that id are interpreted to overrule styles with that class.