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CSS Specificity

How browsers decide which CSS property values should be applied on an element. A weight that is applied to a given CSS declaration.

Inline styles added to an element always overwrite any styles given in an external stylesheet. They have highest specificity.

The !important rule overrides any other declarations.

#parent {
  color: green;
}

h1{
  color: purple;
}
<html>
  <body id="parent">
    <h1>Here is a title!</h1>
  </body>
</html>

The h1 will be purple.

As per CSS rules, directly targeted elements will always take precedence over rules which an element inherits from its ancestor.