Inheritance in CSS

<head><style> body{Color:green;} .div{color:Red;} </style> </head> <body> <div class="div"> <p> this is some text</p> </div> </body> Now Why the Paragraph in the Body section uses red color instead of green which is defined as a color for the body section.

css inheritance style

22nd Nov 2016, 1:09 AM

Shanmugarajan Kalyanasundarsam

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Divs are separated of the body , the <p> will give the precedence to the div style . And actually this is why we use divs

22nd Nov 2016, 3:19 AM

Amine Karimi

Answer is RED. EXPLANATION: Though the body tag is specfied with green color , the p tag in the div section takes the priority of .div(class selector) defined with color:red first.Hence "this is some text" is diplayed in red color...

10th Feb 2022, 8:44 AM

Padmanaban P