The specified value of a CSS property is the value it receives from the document's style sheet. The specified value for a given property is determined according to the following rules:
<p>My specified color is given explicitly in the CSS.</p> <div>The specified values of all my properties default to their initial values, because none of them are given in the CSS.</div> <div class="fun"> <p>The specified value of my font family is not given explicitly in the CSS, so it is inherited from my parent. However, the border is not an inheriting property.</p> </div>
.fun { border: 1px dotted pink; font-family: fantasy; } p { color: green; }
Specification | Status | Comment |
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CSS Level 2 (Revision 1) The definition of 'cascaded value' in that specification. | Recommendation | Initial definition. |
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