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CLASS overrules ELEMENT

 


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

  <title>Specificity</title>
  <style type="text/css" media="screen">
    h1 {
      color:#000;
    }
    p {
      color:#000;
    }
    
    div h1 {
      color:#333;
    }
    div p {
      color:#333;
    }
    
    div.module h1 {
      color:#666;
    }
    div.module p {
      color:#666;
    }
    
  </style>
  
</head>

<body>
  <h1>Page Title</h1>
  <p>This is a test. This is a test. </p>
  
  <div>
    <h1>Page Title</h1>
    <p>This is a test. This is a test. </p>
  </div>
  <div class="module">
    <h1>Page Title</h1>
    <p>This is a test. This is a test. </p>
  </div>
  
</body>
</html>

 








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