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I had studied earlier that embedded CSS always overrides external css. But I found that whichever comes last in the code, those styles prevail.
Please see the following code, considering that I have used color:green; in external CSS for h3.
<head>
<link rel=stylesheet href="style.css">
<style>
h3{
color:red;
}
</style>
</head>
Output of the above code will show me any text I write inside h3 in red color.
But if I write the above code like this:-
<head>
<style>
h3{
color:red;
}
</style>
<link rel=stylesheet href="style.css">
</head>
In the above case, I get the color of text inside h3 as "green" (since assuming I have given "green" as font-color in external CSS ).
This is because I have written link tag after style tag.
So which means that external css is not always over-ridden by embedded css.
Or is it a rule to write the link tag always before style tag in head.
Please explain this point.
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css file with an identical class to what is mentioned in the internal css file. Therefore, when it is rendered in the browser, internal css will override external css . div-color class because of specificity rules, and inline css will override internal css .
To add CSS styles to your website, you can use three different ways to insert the CSS. You can Use an “External Stylesheet“, an “Internal Stylesheet“, or in “Inline Style“. The benefit for using each depends on what you are doing with the Style.
Answer: You cannot override inline CSS if it has ! important . It has higher precedence than the style in your external CSS file. , there's no way to override an inline ! important .
html worked fine, overrides the external css. Show activity on this post. Either apply the style="padding:0px;" on the content div inline (not recommended), or load your style after you load your external style sheet.
Inline styles added to an element (e.g., style="font-weight: bold;" ) always overwrite any normal styles in author stylesheets, and therefore, can be thought of as having the highest specificity.
important flag, specificity dictates that an inline rule is applied - meaning that for OP's scenario, there's no way to override an inline ! important .
It doesn't matter if your stylesheet is within <style>-tags or externally and linked with <link />. The last one has always precedence, they could even be in the same external file, really just the order of the selectors and their specificities matter.
However, inline CSS using the style=".." attribute always has precedence, because it's most specific. To override that, you would have to use !important. Properties in style=".." using !important cannot be overridden.
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Which CSS rules are applied depends on the specificity of the CSS rule, where that rule is placed, and the presence of !important. If two contradictory rules are placed, the rule declared later will overwrite the previous rule. If two contradictory rules are declared with selectors of varying specificity, the more specific styles will win, regardless of placement. If a rule is marked as !important e.g.
h1 {
color: green !important;
}
the !important rule will always win.
For reference the list of specificity of CSS selectors goes like this (from most specific to least):
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