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I'm a little confused about CSS and the class attribute. I always thought, the order in which I specify multiple classes in the attribute value has a meaning. The later class could/should overwrite definitions of the previous, but this doesn't seem to work. Here's an example:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.extra {
color: #00529B;
border:1px solid #00529B; /* Blue */
background-color: #BDE5F8;
}
.basic {
border: 1px solid #ABABAB;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" value="basic" class="basic"/>
<input type="text" value="extra" class="extra"/>
<input type="text" value="basic extra" class="basic extra"/>
<input type="text" value="extra basic" class="extra basic"/>
</body>
</html>
I would expect, the third example with class="basic extra" should have a blue border, since the in extra specified border would overwrite the border from basic.
I'm using FF 3 on ubuntu 9.04
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The Order of CSS Classes in HTML Doesn't Matter | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks.
Inline CSS has a higher priority than embedded and external CSS. So final Order is: Value defined as Important > Inline >id nesting > id > class nesting > class > tag nesting > tag.
The order CSS property sets the order to lay out an item in a flex or grid container. Items in a container are sorted by ascending order value and then by their source code order.
The order in which the attributes are overwritten is not determined by the order the classes are defined in the class attribute, but instead where they appear in the CSS.
.myClass1 {color:red;}
.myClass2 {color:green;}<div class="myClass2 myClass1">Text goes here</div>The text in the div will appear green, and not red; because .myClass2 is further down in the CSS definition than .myClass1. If I were to swap the ordering of the class names in the class attribute, nothing would change.
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The order of classes in the attribute is irrelevant. All the classes in the class attribute are applied equally to the element.
The question is: in what order do the style rules appear in your .css file. In your example, .basic comes after .extra so the .basic rules will take precedence wherever possible.
If you want to provide a third possibility (e.g., that it's .basic but that the .extra rules should still apply), you'll need to invent another class, .basic-extra perhaps, which explicitly provides for that.
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