CSS Specificity Explained

How CSS specificity is calculated and how it interacts with layer order, source order, and !important in the cascade.

Content tagged specificity

• Post:CSS Cascade Layers (@layer): End Specificity Wars in Large Codebases

  Control CSS priority with layer order, not specificity.

  Learn how CSS cascade layers (@layer) set priority by layer order instead of specificity — unlayered styles, the !important reversal, revert-layer, layering third-party CSS, the full cascade sort order, migrating a large codebase and putting utility classes last.