Media queries are not being applied

Question

This is my CSS media query

@media screen and (max-width: 450px) {
    .box_url {
        font-size: 12pt;
    }
    .box_heading {
        font-size: 13pt;
    }
    .right {
    text-align: left;
    }
    .jane {
    font-size: 10pt;
    }
    .ninja {
    font-size: 12pt;
    }
}

and my normal CSS

.right {
  text-align: right;
}
.jane {
  width: 100%;
  font-size: 70pt;
}
.ninja {
  width: 100%;
    font-size: 25pt;
}

But when I run the site some of the media queries aren't being applied.

When I open dev tools in chrome it shows that the media queries are being overridden.

I tried using min-width too but it still doesn't apply those styles. Why is this happening and how to fix this?

Answer 1

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, so you must put your media query after your standard CSS

like this:

.right {
  text-align: right;
}
.jane {
  width: 100%;
  font-size: 70pt;
}
.ninja {
  width: 100%;
  font-size: 25pt;
}
@media screen and (max-width: 450px) {
  .box_url {
    font-size: 12pt;
  }
  .box_heading {
    font-size: 13pt;
  }
  .right {
    text-align: left;
  }
  .jane {
    font-size: 10pt;
  }
  .ninja {
    font-size: 12pt;
  }
}

Or if you want to keep the media query in first place then you need to more specific in your CSS selectors.

something like this:

@media screen and (max-width: 450px) {
  .flex .box_url {
    font-size: 12pt;
  }
  .flex .box_heading {
    font-size: 13pt;
  }
  .flex .right {
    text-align: left;
  }
  .flex .jane {
    font-size: 10pt;
  }
  .flex .ninja {
    font-size: 12pt;
  }
}
.right {
  text-align: right;
}
.jane {
  width: 100%;
  font-size: 70pt;
}
.ninja {
  width: 100%;
  font-size: 25pt;
}