CSS Mastery Recipient Portal Practice Test

When two rules target the same element, the browser uses the cascade: it weighs how specific each selector is, and if they’re equally specific, it relies on source order. The most specific rule wins, and if both have the same specificity, the rule that appears later in the CSS file wins. In practice, inline styles have the highest practical specificity, then IDs, then classes/attributes/pseudo-classes, then element selectors. This is why the correct guideline is: higher specificity wins; if equal, later in the CSS file wins.