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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Getting Started with CSS External Style Sheets

Posted by Chase Hefner
Chase Hefner
1,063 Points

If you link to more than one stylesheet, which one takes precedence?

For example, if you had two stylesheets linked to your html document, which one would take precedence if you had overlapping styles?

1 Answer

Rabin Gharti Magar
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Rabin Gharti Magar
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 20,928 Points

Hey Chase Hefner,

The last one will always take the precedence.

Check out this link I found on Stack Overflow for more information: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16913131/can-one-css-file-take-priority-over-another-css-file

Happy Coding!

Chase Hefner
Chase Hefner
1,063 Points

Awesome, thank you!