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4: The Cascade

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The Cascade Origin Specificity

When you have important rules in your authored code, those would actually get overwritten by the user agent's important rules. And an interesting tidbit also is that when a local user decides to use the important tag, that gets precedence over the author important tags. So it kind of goes base user agent styles, then base local user style, then base author styles,. Then it inverts and you have the author styles important, local user important, and the user agent important tags from least to most specific. It could really be the key to like unlock your understanding unit.

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