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Matija Marohnić
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Transcript
Matija Marohnić CSS Specificity
A little bit about me • frontend developer and blogger
• obsessed with generating static sites • DX evangelist • open source • automate all the things • follow me on Twitter: @silvenon
MDN Web docs “Specificity is the means by which browsers
decide which property values are the most relevant to an element and, therefore, will be applied.”
X Y Z type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute selectors,
pseudo-classes ID selectors
0 0 1 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute selectors,
pseudo-classes ID selectors
0 1 2 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute selectors,
pseudo-classes ID selectors
1 2 2 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute selectors,
pseudo-classes ID selectors
0 54 0 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute selectors,
pseudo-classes ID selectors A trick to bump specificity
0 1 0 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute selectors,
pseudo-classes ID selectors
• these don’t affect specificity: • universal selector (*) •
combinators (+, >, ~, etc.) • negation pseudo-class (:not())
0 0 0 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute selectors,
pseudo-classes ID selectors
0 1 1 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute selectors,
pseudo-classes ID selectors
1 0 0 0 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors, attribute
selectors, pseudo-classes ID selectors inline style
1 0 0 0 1 type selectors, pseudo-elements class selectors,
attribute selectors, pseudo-classes ID selectors inline style !important
When to use !important • as little as possible •
basically only to override third-party styles
An alternative to !important Lorem ipsum dolor, sit amet consectetur
adipisicing elit.
The best way to increase specificity is…
• the lower the specificity, the easier it is to
manage • plus, this way we keep repetition out of HTML …source order.
The color of the paragraph is: 1. red 2. green
3. blue 4. fuchsia Quiz!
Happy styling!