#billy { don't be a: hero; }

The way that CSS's specificity (how browsers choose which CSS rules to apply) works can be a little baffling, even to old hands. I was writing rules for this site and ran into a problem where one style was overriding another where, I thought, it really shouldn't.

• 19.12.2003, 13.39
• File under: CSS, CSS selectors, CSS selector specificity