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CSS

Posted by Presica Mathew
Presica Mathew
Courses Plus Student 2,752 Points

Will the order in which the CSS rendered affects the inherited elements of any page?

Say I am creating a CSS page. Obviously the elements will be rendered in page top to bottom order. What if I mention/write my inherited value above the CSS original element property?

1 Answer

Rich Salvucci
Rich Salvucci
16,716 Points
Rich Salvucci
Rich Salvucci
16,716 Points

If I am understanding your question correctly and your CSS looks like this:

.element {
    background-color: inherit;
}

.element {
    background-color: blue;
}

The element will have a background color of blue, because that is overwriting the inherit rule. The inherit background color is initially being set to the User Agent style sheet, which is usually white by default. Does that make sense?