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Precedence in parent/child classes of same specificity [duplicate]
In the given code snippet why font size of h1 element is 36px?
I have these questions :
If h1 is defined 1st, then the font size of main(i.e. 32px) should be applied on the h1 heading, as it is ...
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Why is the font-size, but not the color, property applying to elements?
I'm self-teaching myself Html/Css, kindly explain to me like a dummy(phew!)
Help clear the doubt where I tried to target my list items in an unordered list. I realized that color property couldn't be ...
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CSS Specificity - Conflicts between CSS selectors
I have a question regarding the following pseudo-class selector.
Even with !important, the text under this li:first-child is not showing blue.
p has Selector Specificity: (0, 0, 1)
li:first-child has ...
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Rules Specificity [duplicate]
body {
font-size: 12px;
}
.brown {
color: brown;
font-weight: 200;
}
.large {
font-size: 28px;
}
.normal {
font-size: 18px;
color: blue;
font-weight: 700;
}
<html>
<head&...
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Can't change the style of link
I'm very new to coding and I currently try to change the style of my html link.
I've nested my Picture, <h1> and <p> in a <a href> to make it all a link to the same destination, but ...
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How is css specificity determined for elements with the same selector? [duplicate]
I have two styles affecting the same element (myDiv) from different stylesheets.
Stylesheet1.css
.myDiv{
background-color:#000;
}
Stylesheet2.css
.myDiv{
background-color:#FFF;
}
Neither style ...
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Am I messing with specificity ? What's going on?
I will short and clear. I have this html code snippet.
<nav>
<span class="heading"><a href="#">CodingHero</a></span>
<ul>
...
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Why font-size defined at :root is overriden by user agent stylesheet? If it's intended to be, then how is th snippet supposed to work?
My understanding is that the CSS in the following snippet is for having font-size vary gradually with the viewport, a possiple building block to accomplish responsive design:
:root {
font-size: ...
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Why setting max-width makes setting width with a more specific selector ineffective?
In the following snippet, I'm specifying the width in pixel of the image using the img.icon selector. However, as I down-resize the browser the image also shrinks. If I remove the commented line, then ...
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Styling an element within another styled as a pseudo element first-line
I am using a pseudo-element to style the first line of a paragraph (class="first-para") in my document:
.first-para::first-line {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: calc(var(--fontSize) * 1....
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CSS add specificity to :host pseudo class [duplicate]
I'm trying to add specificity to the :host pseudo class so that it doesn't get overridden by the universal (*) selector outside the custom element.
I see that adding a selector in the :host function ...
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Descendant selectors more specific than child selectors? [duplicate]
So I'm learning CSS right now. I'm tinkering with selectors at the moment and this has me kind of stumped. When I run this code. The child of the li all stay green.
ul li{
color: green;
}
li >...
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CSS Wildcard Selector - No override?
Can anyone tell me why the last span is dotted? Why isn't it overwritten?
Forkable pen
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/pqjREd
div div div * span {
border: double;
}
div * * span {
border: ...
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How to separate css rules for files in react?
I am working on two pages in reactjs. One is a landing page and the other is an articles page. The problem I am having is the CSS rules for the landing page are affecting the appearance of the ...
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Does CSS ever care about DOM "closeness" relationships?
Given the following code:
div, span {
padding: 10px;
display: block;
}
.light-background {
background-color: #cacaca;
}
.dark-background {
background-color: #333;
}
.dark-background ...
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