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Style attributes have very high specificity so they basically preclude using normal CSS files (they would mandate every line include !important)

• gitgud 6y ago
  This is misleading, !important is not required to use inline styles. They still cascade normally like CSS classes... see this example: <div style="color: red"> <p>red text</p> <p>red text</p> <p style="color: blue">blue text</p> </div> Ironically, it's actually complex CSS classes and long selectors that produce high specificity, which then requires even more specificity to override and eventually the dreaded !important
  • SahAssar 6y ago
    The parent is not talking about inheritance. They are talking about specificity.
  • cosmotic 6y ago
    If an element has a style attribute that sets the color, it will override every single CSS/Style-element style that also sets the color, unless the CSS/Style-element style also includes an !important.