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CSSINHERITANCE

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Let’s startwith the

documenttree

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Before we explore inheritance, weneed to understand the

document tree.

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All HTML documents are trees.

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Document trees are made fromHTML elements.

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The document tree is just likeyour family tree.

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An ancestor refers to anyelement that is connected butfurther up the document tree.

Ancestor

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A descendant refers to anyelement that is connected but

lower down the document tree.

Descendant

Descendants

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A parent is an element that isconnected & directly above anelement in the document tree.

Parent

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A child is an element that isconnected & directly below anelement in the document tree.

Child

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A sibling is an element thatshares the same parent as

another element.

Parent

Siblings

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Next, a bitabout

CSS rules

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We also need to understand thebasics of CSS rules before

exploring inheritance.

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CSS rules tell browsershow to render specific elements

on an HTML page.

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CSS rules are made up offive components.

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The selector "selects" theelements on an HTML page that

are affected by the rule.

p { color: red; }

Selector

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The declaration block is acontainer that consists of

anything between (and including)the brackets.

p { color: red; }

Declaration block

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The declaration tells a browserhow to render any element on a

page that is selected.

p { color: red; }

Declaration

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The property is the aspect of thatelement that you are choosing to

style.

p { color: red; }

Property

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The value is the exact style youwish to set for the property.

p { color: red; }

Value

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Now…what is

inheritance?

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Inheritance is where specific CSSproperties are passed down to

descendant elements.

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To see inheritance in action, wewill use the HTML code below:

<p>Lorem <em>ipsum</em> dolor sit amet consect etuer.

</p>

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Note that the <em> element sitsinside the <p> element.

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We will also use this CSS code.Note that the <em> element has

not been specified.

p { color: red; }

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In a browser, the <p> and <em>elements will both be colored

red.

<em> element

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But why is the <em> elementcolored red when it has not been

styled?

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Because the <em> element hasinherited the color property from

the <p> element.

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Why isinheritance

helpful?

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Inheritance is designed to makeit easier for authors.

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Otherwise we would need tospecify properties for alldescendant elements.

p { color: red; }p em { color: red; }

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CSS files would be much largerin size, harder to create andmaintain as well as slower to

download.

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Are all CSSpropertiesinherited?

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No. All CSS properties arenot inherited!

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If every CSS property wasinherited, it would make things

much harder for authors.

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Authors would have to turn offunwanted CSS properties for

descendant elements.

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For example, what would happenif the border property was

inherited by default…

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and we then applied a border tothe <p> element?

p { border: 1px solid red; }

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The <em> inside the <p> wouldalso have a red border.

<em> element

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Luckily, borders are notinherited, so the <em> would not

have a red border.

<em> element

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Generally speaking, onlyproperties that make our job

easier are inherited!

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So, whichproperties are

inherited?

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The following CSS properties areinherited…

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azimuth, border-collapse, border-spacing,caption-side, color, cursor, direction, elevation,

empty-cells, font-family, font-size, font-style,font-variant, font-weight, font, letter-spacing,

line-height, list-style-image, list-style-position,list-style-type, list-style, orphans, pitch-range,pitch, quotes, richness, speak-header, speak-numeral, speak-punctuation, speak, speech-

rate, stress, text-align, text-indent, text-transform, visibility, voice-family, volume, white-

space, widows, word-spacing

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Yikes! That is a lot of properties.

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To simply things, let’s take a lookat some of the

key groups of properties.

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Text-related properties that areinherited:

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azimuth, border-collapse, border-spacing,caption-side, color, cursor, direction, elevation,

empty-cells, font-family, font-size, font-style,font-variant, font-weight, font, letter-spacing,

line-height, list-style-image, list-style-position,list-style-type, list-style, orphans, pitch-range,pitch, quotes, richness, speak-header, speak-numeral, speak-punctuation, speak, speech-

rate, stress, text-align, text-indent, text-transform, visibility, voice-family, volume, white-

space, widows, word-spacing

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List-related properties that areinherited:

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azimuth, border-collapse, border-spacing,caption-side, color, cursor, direction, elevation,

empty-cells, font-family, font-size, font-style,font-variant, font-weight, font, letter-spacing,

line-height, list-style-image, list-style-position,list-style-type, list-style, orphans, pitch-range,pitch, quotes, richness, speak-header, speak-numeral, speak-punctuation, speak, speech-

rate, stress, text-align, text-indent, text-transform, visibility, voice-family, volume, white-

space, widows, word-spacing

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And, importantly, thecolor property is inherited:

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azimuth, border-collapse, border-spacing,caption-side, color, cursor, direction, elevation,

empty-cells, font-family, font-size, font-style,font-variant, font-weight, font, letter-spacing,

line-height, list-style-image, list-style-position,list-style-type, list-style, orphans, pitch-range,pitch, quotes, richness, speak-header, speak-numeral, speak-punctuation, speak, speech-

rate, stress, text-align, text-indent, text-transform, visibility, voice-family, volume, white-

space, widows, word-spacing

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Is font-sizeinherited?

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The simple answer is “yes”.However, font-size is inherited ina different way to many other

properties.

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Rather than the actual valuebeing inherited, the calculated

value is inherited.

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Before explaining how font-sizeinheritance works, we need to

look at whyfont-size is not directly

inherited.

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Let’s start with thesame sample of HTML code we

used earlier:

<p>Lorem <em>ipsum</em> dolor sit amet consect etuer.

</p>

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As before the <em>sits inside the <p>.

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Now, a font-size is applied to the<p> element only. The <em> has

not been specified.

p { font-size: 80%; }

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If the font-size value of 80% wereto be inherited, the

<em> would be sized to 80%of the <p> element…

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and the rendered documentwould look like this:

<em> element

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However, this is not the case!The <em> is the same size as the

<p>.

<em> element

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So how does inheritance work forfont-size?

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Let’s look at three examplesin action.

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We will use the same HTMLcode as before:

<p>Lorem <em>ipsum</em> dolor sit amet consect etuer.

</p>

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Which produces the samedocument tree as before.

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Example 1:Pixels

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The <p> element has been givena font-size of 14px.

Note: pixels are not recommended for sizing fonts due to accessibilityissues associated with older browsers such as IE5 and IE6.

p { font-size: 14px; }

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This pixel value (14px) overridesthe browsers default font-size

value (approx 16px). This newvalue is inherited by

descendants.

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element value calcuated value

default font size approx 16px

<body> unspecified approx 16px

<p> 14px 14px

<em> unspecified inherited value = 14px

So, the <em> element inherits the14px value.

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Example 2:Percentage

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The <p> element has been givena font-size of 85%.

p { font-size: 85%; }

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The browsers default font-size(16px) and the percentage value

(85%) are used to create acalculated value (16px x 85% =

13.6px). This calculated value isinherited by descendants.

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element value calcuated value

default font size approx 16px

<body> unspecified approx 16px

<p> 85% 16px x 85% = 13.6px

<em> unspecified inherited value = 13.6px

So, the <em> element inherits the13.6px calculated value.

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Example 3:EMs

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The <p> element has been givena font-size of .85em.

Note: Avoid using EMs for font-size values under 1em as IE5 renders thesevalues in pixels instead of EMs (.8em is rendered as 8px).

p { font-size: .85em; }

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The browsers default font-size(16px) and the EM value (.85em)are used to create a calculatedvalue (16px x .85em = 13.6px).

This calculated value isinherited by descendants.

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element value calcuated value

default font size approx 16px

<body> unspecified approx 16px

<p> .85em 16px x .85em = 13.6px

<em> unspecified inherited value = 13.6px

So, the <em> element inherits the13.6px calculated value.

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Those examples were too simple.What about more complexexamples using different

elements?

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Example 4:

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All elements have been specifiedusing percentage values.

body { font-size: 85%; }h1 { font-size: 200%; }h2 { font-size: 150%; }

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The browsers default font-size(16px) and the body percentagevalue (85%) are used to create acalculated value (16px x 85% =13.6px). This calculated value isinherited by descendants unless

new values are specified.

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element value calculated font-size

default font size approx 16px

<body> 85% 16px x 85% = 13.6px

<h1> 200% inherited value 13.6px x 200% = 27.2px

<h2> 150% inherited value 13.6px x 150% = 20.4px

<p> unspecified inherited value = 13.6px

<em> unspecified inherited value = 13.6px

The font-size inheritance inaction

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Using inheritancefor efficiency

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Authors can use inheritance towrite efficient CSS.

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For example, you can set thecolor, font-size and font-family on

the body element.

body { color: #222;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 90%;

}

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These properties will be inheritedby all descendant elements.

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You can then override theproperties as needed, specifying

new color values...

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body { color: #222;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 90%;

}

h1, h2, h3 { color: green; }h4, h5, h6 { color: black; }

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new font-family values...

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body { color: #222;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 90%;

}

h1, h2, h3 { color: green; }h4, h5, h6 { color: black; }

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: georgia, times, serif;

}

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and new font-size values asneeded.

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}

h1, h2, h3 { color: green; }h4, h5, h6 { color: black; }

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: georgia, times, serif;

}

h1 { font-size: 200%; }h2 { font-size: 150%; }h3 { font-size: 125%; }#footer { font-size: 90%; }

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Now, go forth andinherit the world!

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We’re done!