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Specifics on CSS Specificity

# Linked to 10 May 2010, 10:27 in Articles by Sam Brown

The best way to explain it is to start with an example of where specificity gets confusing and perhaps doesn’t behave like you would expect. Then we’ll take a closer look at how to calculate the actual specificity value to determine which selector takes precedence.

[Updated Article] : “I am updating it now to fix some inaccuracies in how this concept was presented.”

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