CSS Specificity

Here, we’ll cover the most common use cases of CSS selectors and understand CSS specificity in detail.

We’ll start with specificity.

Introduction to CSS specificity

CSS specificity is a way for the browser to determine which CSS declarations to apply when it comes across ambiguous syntax.

In other words, it’s a way for the browser to decide which styles to apply when there is more than a single CSS declaration for the same element(s) on the page.

Here’s the HTML, CSS, and the corresponding output: